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🔍 Using the Search System

🧭 Where to Find the Search Box

The search icon appears:

  • On the right of the main navigation bar as a magnifying glass icon
  • On mobile, inside the menu drawer

When clicked, a search box appears into which you can place your query. It is available to both public visitors and members.

This page explains what you can search, what you cannot, and how the system works for each type of user.

🛠 Tips for Effective Searching

  • Space = AND  
  • OR works as you might expect
  • Minus = NOT
  • Quotes “” are used to denote an exact phrase
  • Parentheses () are not supported
  • Searches are case insensitive

Search Examples

  • mountain tales
    • Returns objects with both mountain AND tales
  • mountain OR tales
    • Returns objects with either mountain OR tales
  • mountain -tales
    • Returns objects with mountain AND NOT tales
  • “mountain tales”
    • Returns objects with the exact phrase “mountain tales”

What You Can Search

The search returns results from

  • All website pages
  • Photo galleries
  • Help pages
  • All society documents
  • The society catalogue of physical artefacts

If a public visitor searches for something that exists only in the Members area, it will appear in the results, but the visitor will not be able to access it.

👥 Members Extra Privileges

When a member clicks a search result that points to a members only resource file, they will be taken to a page that allows that file to be downloaded

Members can also search inside the NAS folders directly using:

  • Synology Drive
  • File Station
  • Synology Photos
  • DSM Desktop

These systems are separate from WordPress, so their contents do not appear in website search results.

🔎 What the Search Does Index

For members:

  • Page titles
  • Page content
  • Help pages
  • Photo gallery descriptions
  • News posts
  • PDF content
  • Word document content
  • Text file content
  • Other supported NAS file formats
  • File metadata (titles, names, descriptions)

🚫 What the Search Does Not Index

Even with NAS indexing, the search system does not index:

  • Images (unless OCR text is embedded)
  • Scanned PDFs without OCR
  • Password‑protected documents
  • Synology Photos albums
  • File Station interface elements
  • DSM Desktop applications
  • Non‑textual content (e.g., audio, video)
  • Files stored outside the indexed folders

If you cannot find a file, check whether:

  • It is stored in a non‑indexed folder
  • It is a scanned PDF without OCR
  • It is an image without embedded text
  • You are not logged in (members‑only content will not appear)

📞 Need Help?

For general website problems please contact the website administrator via the contact form and select Website.

If you cannot access the Members area or believe you should have additional permissions, please contact the website administrator via the contact form and select Member’s Access Problems.

If you believe a document should appear in search results but does not, or if you need help accessing NAS files, please contact the site administrator.

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