BSCW's built-in search engine helps you find objects on the BSCW server.

In the form for a BSCW search you specify:

• in the 'Search in' field the folder where a search shall start (if possible, avoid searching 'the whole system' which may take a long time. Due to a 'time-out' of your Web browser, your BSCW session might be aborted.
• in the 'for type' field the type of object you are looking for (folder, document, etc., or 'any' if you don't know the type).

The name based search is the default but the search can be extended to other criteria such as 'content', 'MIME type', 'created by', or 'read since'. Search criteria can be combined to more complex queries where the individual criteria are combined either by 'or' or 'and'.

BSCW will display the Search Result (= list of hits) in a page which looks similar to a folder listing. The description for each object contains the folder wherein the respective object is contained. (Ensure that you have the descriptions enabled in your 'View' settings.)

Please note that the search for content of documents includes only documents of type text/plain or text/html, if no index server is installed with your BSCW server. Please contact your BSCW system administrator for the existence of an index server; it requires special actions when installing a BSCW server.