Search
Please note that ICA-AtoM is no longer actively supported by Artefactual Systems.
Visit https://www.accesstomemory.org for information about AtoM, the currently supported version.
Basic search
Main Page > (UM) User manual > UM-4 Access content > UM-4.1 Basic search
Use the Search box to find descriptions in ICA-AtoM that contain matching text. The Search box is available on every screen for every user.
1. Enter a search term in the Search box.
2. Click the Search button.
3. ICA-AtoM searches all fields in all archival descripitons and returns matches on the Search results screen (list).
4. The Search results screen shows the search parametres and the numbers of matches found.
5. For each match, the Search results screen gives the description title and the first three lines of the Scope and content field (if it in fact contains any data).
6. Click a title to view the full description (routes you to the record's View screen).
Notes and limitations
As of the current version of ICA-AtoM (v1.0 beta):
- Search is not case-sensitive.
- You can only search archival descriptions; you cannot currently search authority records, archival institutions, or terms.
- You cannot save the search results.
- There is currently no Advanced search screen. But see in this manual Search: advanced (UM-4.2) for techniques that can be used in the basic Search box.
- Search runs on the language specified by the language view; for descriptions not translated into the preferred language, search will revert to the default source language. E.g. an application has English as the default source language and the user has switched to Français as the language view; a query will search the French text where translations into French exist and the English text where descriptions have not been translated.
Future releases of ICA-AtoM (post-1.0) will address current limitations.