Using Tech Pubs

FieldLogs

Technical Publications, referred to as Tech Pubs is a search option available in FieldLogs to search through the content of the Reference Manuals.

The Tech Pubs search can be accessed by clicking the search icon from the main menu.

You can also access Tech Pubs by clicking Advanced search from Manual Catalog Management.

When you select Tech Pubs in the dropdown, the page Global search opens.

You can perform the following actions in the Tech Pubs page.

Global search: Perform a keyword search through the content of the Reference Manuals.
Select a Manual: Select the manuals from the respective Technical Manual Index.
Manual preview: View the selected manuals in different tabs.
Manual history: Displays a list of the previously viewed manuals.
Items history: Displays a list of the previously viewed manual elements.

The Tech Pubs is available to search the content of Reference Manuals content of Reference Manuals available in the system.

The search is a simple text match with the following conditions:

Only letters and numbers are considered.
Special characters are ignored. They are treated as space delimiters.
The search is case-insensitive.
The search engine also accepts multiple keywords separated by a space delimiter.
The search results are ordered by a system-generated score of relevance.

In the following example, the search keyword entered is 'Rotor Blade'. The search returns 111021 results as shown below.

The following table highlights how the search results are ranked.

Keywords	Search Rank
"Rotor Blade"	Results containing the phrase “Rotor Blade” rank higher in the search.
"Rotor" & "Blade"	Results containing “Rotor” and “Blade” separately rank lower.
"Rotor" or "Blade"	Results containing “Rotor” alone or “Blade” alone will not be included in the search results.

The search results are displayed in a table with the following columns.

Columns	Description
Manual	Name of the Manual.
Content type	Displays the Content Type of the Manual.
Name	Name of the section that contains the searched keyword.
Number	Represents the Public key of the element that contains the searched keyword.
Private Key	Represents the section of the searched keyword.
Description	Description of the section displayed.

Keywords previously entered can be cleared by clicking Reset keywords.

You can narrow down the search results by filtering them based on:

Technical Manual Index (TMI): When you select one or more Technical Manual Indexes (TMIs), the search results are narrowed to manuals under these TMIs.
In the example given below, the Technical Manual Index (TMI), AMM_2025 is selected. The manuals under the selected Technical Manual Index (TMI) are auto-selected.
Content types: You can narrow down the search further by selecting one or more Content types. The Content types dropdown appears only when the Technical Manual Index is selected.
In the following example, the system only has Reference Manuals of Content Type, AMM. When Reference Manuals of other Content Types are added to the system and indexed, they appear as options too.
Note
Only Indexed manuals appear in Tech Pub search results. Indexing of Reference Manuals is performed by the FieldLogs team. All Reference Manuals uploaded will be automatically indexed.
If you require an existing Reference Manual to be indexed or a new Reference Manual to be added, please contact FieldLogs support.
Include Screenings: Checking the Include screenings option ensures that the Manuals currently in the Screening stage are also included in the search.