Help for Enterprise Vault Search

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Product(s): Enterprise Vault (12.4)
  1. Getting started with Enterprise Vault Search
    1. About Enterprise Vault Search
      1.  
        About retention of archived items
      2.  
        About retention folders
    2. Finding your way around Enterprise Vault Search
      1.  
        Keyboard shortcuts for Enterprise Vault Search
  2. Searching for archived items
    1. Running a simple search
      1.  
        Search suggestions for simple search
      2.  
        Query syntax to refine a simple search with Enterprise Vault Search
      3.  
        Boolean operators that you can use in a simple search
      4.  
        Examples of query syntax, wildcards, and Boolean operators
    2. Running an advanced search
      1.  
        Saving an advanced search
      2.  
        Rerunning a saved advanced search
  3. Working with search results
    1.  
      About working with search results
    2.  
      About the reading pane toolbar
    3.  
      Viewing items
    4.  
      Finding search terms in a selected item
    5.  
      Downloading items
    6.  
      Restoring items to your mailbox
    7.  
      Restoring items to another user's mailbox
    8.  
      Deleting items from the archive
    9.  
      Changing the retention categories of items
    10.  
      Exporting items
    11.  
      Copying or moving items
    12.  
      Moving a folder
    13.  
      Creating, renaming, and deleting a folder
    14.  
      Repeating a previous action using the recent list
  4. Customizing Enterprise Vault Search
    1.  
      About customizing Enterprise Vault Search
    2.  
      Showing or hiding the sidebar and favorites list
    3.  
      Choosing a starting archive or folder
    4.  
      Choosing the language of the search interface
    5.  
      Choosing the time and date format
    6.  
      Creating and arranging archive groups
    7.  
      Showing, hiding, and positioning the reading pane
    8.  
      Adding a frequently used folder to the favorites list
    9.  
      Choosing how to highlight search terms
    10.  
      Filtering results by type in the results pane
    11.  
      Customizing the columns displayed in the results pane
    12.  
      Showing items in a list in the results pane
    13.  
      Sorting items in the results pane
    14.  
      Showing custom fields in advanced search
    15.  
      Turning search suggestions off or on
    16.  
      Specifying the Exchange server and mailbox
    17.  
      Specifying the Domino server and mail database

Customizing the columns displayed in the results pane

You can specify the columns to display in the results pane, and customize the order and title of the columns.

You can also drag and drop the column headers to reorder them without opening the Customize Columns dialog box.

To customize the columns displayed in the results pane

  1. Run a search or select a folder to populate the results pane with some items.

    You cannot customize the columns while the results pane is empty.

  2. In the results pane, right-click the column header and then point to Columns.

    A drop-down list appears.

    Columns drop-down list
  3. Select the columns to display in the results pane.
  4. If you want to customize the columns in other ways, click Customize Columns.

    The Customize Columns dialog box appears.

    Customize Columns dialog box
  5. Do one or more of the following:

    To do this

    Do this

    Show or hide a column.

    Select or clear the check box at the left of the property name.

    Change the order of the columns.

    In the Order column click the Move up and Move down buttons.

    Rename a column.

    In the Column Header column, click the name that you want to change and then type the new name.

    Add a column.

    Click an empty field and select a property from the drop-down list.

    Create a new column.

    Click an empty field, select Other, and then type the new property name and column header.

    The property name can be the name of an Enterprise Vault index property, or the name of a property that a third-party application has added.

    Note that the property names are case-sensitive.

    Change a column that you have created.

    Edit the property name and column header.

    Remove a column that you have created.

    Click the Cancel Edit button to delete the property name:

    Cancel Edit button

    You can then select another property from the drop-down list.

    Reset the columns to the default settings.

    Click Reset.

    Cancel your changes.

    Close the dialog box.