Object searching process overview

The process of searching for object text begins with the submission of a CBR query and ends with the return of the search results. A CBR query includes a CONTAINS function call to perform a full-text search.

The following table shows the high-level steps involved in searching for an object:

	Step	Description	Related information
1	CBR query submission	An application, such as the administration console, submits a CBR query to Content Platform Engine. A CBR query, by definition, includes a full-text search expression.	For information about CBR queries, see CBR query syntax introduction. For information about submitting a CBR query from the administration console, see Submitting a CBR query.
2	Full-text search submission	Content Platform Engine submits the full-text search expression to a IBM® Content Search Services search server.	For information about accessing the following properties in the administration console, see Accessing subsystem configuration properties: Maximum worker threads for searching For a full-text search request in a CBR query, the maximum number of concurrent worker threads that find index information.
3	Word stem functional inclusion	The search server identifies the stems for the terms in the full-text search expression and functionally includes the stems in the expression.	For more information about word stems, see Token searches: Language-aware versus exact-match.
4	Synonym functional inclusion	The search server identifies any synonyms for the terms in the full-text search expression and functionally includes the synonyms in the expression.	For more information about synonyms, see Synonyms. For information about defining synonyms, see Setting synonyms for full-text searches.
5	Stop word exclusion	The search server identifies any stop words in the full-text search expression and removes them from the expression.	For more information about stop words, see Stop words. For information about defining stop words, see Setting stop words for full-text searches.
6	Search result determination	The search server reads the appropriate indexes to run the full-text search. The search results are passed back to the text search subsystem dispatcher.
7	CBR query result determination	Content Platform Engine joins the full-text search results with other tables in the CBR query and runs the query.	For information about the relationship between the CBR query and the full-text search expression, see CBR Queries.