SAVED SEARCHES & ALERTS
Saved searches
After you have performed a search and refined it to limit it to the results you require, you can save it to run it again. You can choose whether to select all steps in your search history to save, or a sub set of search lines.
Make your choice of search steps to choose and click on 'Save selected Rows'; alternatively select your entire search history by clicking 'Select All'.
You need to give the search a name and click Save. The search is saved and you are returned to the Search screen.
You can review your saved searches by selecting My saved searches from the grey 'login box' on the left:
You then see these options:
Selecting Run Search reloads this search in the Search history screen and will run the search in whatever database it was origionally saved against. Selecting 'Run Search on Current Database' will run the search against the database you are currently searching. Please note that searches that contain thesarus terms are unlikely to bring back meaningful results when run in a database which uses a different thesarus.
Alerts
You can create an Alert based on a Saved Search: this will send you emails containing details of items added or updated within your selected time period.
Click on Create Alert in the above screen to go to:
You need to add an email address to send the alert to, and a subject line. Document type and detail type are the same options as available in the Output function. You can choose the receive the alert weekly, fortnightly or monthly. And you can choose whether or not to include the search history with the email. When you have filled in this screen, click on Save Alert. You will receive a first email within 24 hours, then at the specified intervals. The emails contain details of items added or updated within that time period.
As with Saved Searches, you can see all your alerts by selecting My Alerts from the grey 'login' box:
And you can look at the history of the alert by clicking on View History:
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