One Search new features: Enhanced Autocomplete and Save Searches to One Drive

The latest update to One Search includes two new features.

Enhanced Autocomplete

When you enter search keywords One Search will give you additional prompts on known terms to help you narrow, broaden or clarify your search as well as listing matching terms.

You will see the few phrases from Credo Reference or Wikipedia entries that are potential matches for your search terms:

The Read more link will take you to the full item in Wikipedia.  At the moment links are not available to Credo items but clicking the search button will take you to a One Search results page that will display the Credo item (with link) in the right hand column. This feature will be added in a later update.

Clicking on any of the related topics populates the search box with that term to which you can add additional terms or just click the search button Search Icon
Enhanced Autocomplete is not currently available from the One Search widget on the Library home page but you can quickly get to One Search by clicking on the Search button on the home page (without entering a search) - or just click on Advanced Search.

 Save Searches to One Drive

If you have run a search you'd like to save click the star icon in the search box. This will save the search terms and all the filters you have applied.

You will be prompted to sign in to either Microsoft (e.g. the One Drive that is part of your JCU account, or Google (the Google Drive associated with your personal Google account if you have one). You must choose one to permanently save the search.

By default your search terms form the name of the search, but you can edit the name to make it easier to identify from other saved searches (in this example perhaps adding the Content Type filter appled to the search terms i.e. Speech processing journal articles).


Searches can be retrieved by clicking on the larger white star icon (which will also displays the number of searches saved).  You will be prompted to sign in again to retrieve the search (if you are one another computer or your old session has expired).

Hot Tip 

If you use a news reader that can manage RSS Feeds (like say Outlook) you can use turn your search into an RSS feed so you see all new items added to One Search that match your search.




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