Help - Search history

The Search history pages list all searches executed in AFI Catalog during a single session.

Each Search history page summarises and numbers each of your searches and indicates the number of records found by that search. Each time a new search is executed, it will be numbered and added to the top of the list in chronological order.

A "no records" page will inform you if you don't have any search history stored. There is no limit to the number of entries in the Search history. If more than 25 searches have been performed in a single session, navigation links (ie. 1 | 2 | 3 ) will appear. The most recent searches will always be on the first page of the history, and old searches will appear at the end.

From the Search history page you can:

• re-execute a search - To re-execute a search, click the linked text in the Search Terms section of the list. The relevant Search results page will be displayed.



• refine a search - To refine a search, click on the refine search link in the column next to the search terms you want to refine. The relevant search page will be displayed, where you can add or remove search terms, as required.
Please note it is not possible to refine a combined search.


• combine previous searches - Use the Combining searches feature to combine searches already in the Search history list using the Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT. Enter the numbers of the two searches you would like to combine, select the required Boolean operator and click the Combine button. The relevant Search results will be displayed, and the combined search will be added to the corresponding Search history page.



• clear the history list - To clear all the searches listed, click the clear search history link at the top of the page.

Note: Each Search history page is only retained for a single user session, and so any information recorded there will be lost once you exit AFI Catalog. To keep a more permanent record of your searches, we recommend that you print out the relevant Search history page before exiting.