When searching, the search query will match against any content, including translated terms, and the default search results presents the matched concepts using the Preferred Term in the first available extension language or dialect.
The search results panel is initially empty, awaiting entry of a search query (type at least three characters to trigger type-ahead searching).
Extension authoring search has two additional filtering options (not available in International authoring), to focus the results based on:
Language Reference Set membership (multiple combination options).
Extension language or dialect Preferred Terms (single selection option).
These are available below the Active Only
To constrain the search to a specific language reference set, press the Language Refsets multi-option selector, and make a selection of any combination from those available.
The search results will only show matches to content found in the selected language reference sets.
The screenshot example shows the options available in the ms-belgium extension, which are:
US English
Belgian French language reference set
Inactive OnlyActive and InactiveSwitch to ECLBelgian Dutch language reference set
GB English
Enable the desired filtering by pressing the relevant checkboxes (toggle on/off).
Once a specific selection has been made, the choices made are shown in the button in place of the initial Language Refsets label.
The initial search filtering is equivalent to enabling all options.Be aware that some combinations of language reference set constraints and language or dialect filtering may give no results - for instance, searching for a Dutch word with only the French Language Reference Set selected - since the Dutch word is only present in the Belgian Dutch language reference set, it will only be found if that option is selected.
To constrain the search to a specific language or dialect, press the Filter by single option selector.
A list of language display options are presented for the Fully Specified Name (FSN) and Preferred Term (PT) for each available language/dialect.
As an example, these are the options for ms-belgium:
FSN in US
PT in FR
PT in NL
Press an option to select that language/dialect for the Search results preferred terms (PT in FR is the default option for ms-belgium).
Each extension will show variations matching the PT language and dialect options presented when editing a new concept.
These are defined in the extension codesystem metadata when the extension is first setup for authoring.
The preferred terms in the Search results are updated to show the selected language option.
If there is no translated term available in a selected extension language-dialect, the terms will fall back to the en-US PT (required for all concepts).
So a mix of the selected language/dialect and en-US terms should be expected if full coverage of PT translations is not available for a given extension and set of search matches.
In the Task View - Context Panel tab, when alternative language reference sets are available. the search panel shows additional options for:
Language Refsets reference set selection (combination checklist)
Filter by term (single choice selector)
The language reference set selection controls which results to include, and the term choice decides which language is used to search and present the results.
To search using Chinese queries, first select Filter by PT in ZH.
Enter a character in the query box to trigger searching.
The results panel shows "Searching..." until all results become available.
Some searches with small results sets may be almost instantaneous - larger results sets may take a few seconds to load.
Since a character-based writing system such as Chinese can associate each logogram with an entire sound or phrase, the three-character minimum used to optimize type-ahead search phrases for other languages and dialects does not apply when Filter by PT in ZH is selected.
This will however be re-applied if the Filter by selection is changed to a non-Chinese option (for instance FSN in US).
Term matches to the search query are then listed, along with the total number of concepts found.
Use the and features as needed.
Editing the query will immediately trigger a search and present an updated results set (due to the relaxed trigger requirement of only a single character when Filter by PT in ZH is selected).
