TABLE OF CONTENTS

• The general concept of search history 
• Combining steps & creating strategies
• Where I can find the previous history ?

The general concept of search history 

The search history records almost all the searches you have done in Orbit Intelligence, on any of the 3 databases. 

Each time you run a search, a search step is automatically created in the search history section. Intelligence stores the search statements and the context on the past 8 days of work.

From this interface, you can elaborate complex strategies with several search steps, combine them, remove some, and save as a script (disk icon) or make an alert (bell icon).

To erase all the search history, you have to select all the lines and then use the red cross button at the top left.  

The Command line editor is a dedicated interface to write a search string, assisted by our fields library. You will find out examples and suggestions, and browse all the available fields / data offered by the database you are connected to. 

Combining steps & creating strategies

At the bottom of the screen, a section allows to combine the search steps. 

Only the boolean operators can be used : AND, OR, NOT. Proximity operators will give unrelevant hits. 

For example, in the displayed case, a first query (Step 1) containing keywords specific to the topic of interest is combined (with an OR) to a larger keyword search (Step 2) which has been limited to the technical domain related to "transport" (step 3) in order to avoid noise.

Once satisfied by the combination, the resulting hits can be reviewed by clicking on number of results directly.

Up to 1000 steps can be stored in the search history.

Where I can find the previous history ?

The former "previous history" interface has been migrated at the top right of search history interface:

This secondary history is only a text-storage, that means there is no "context" between the lines or being related to others.