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Pharmaplayers® Text Search Features
PP has the best text searching facilities of any comparable product. In an instant, you can search the equivalent of over 40,000 pages for any keyword or combination of keywords. You start a search by pressing the "Search PP" button on screen 1 of the Autoplay Menu, or the "binoculars" button on the toolbar of the main program module:
Proximity, boolean, fuzzy, and wildcard options are all readily available. You can limit your search to particular types of company, or to selected sections of company profiles, or both.
Every successful text search produces a results page, i.e. a list of matching documents. These documents can be ranked by number of hits, date of publication, title, filename, size, or document type. Any document can be viewed by clicking on its title or filename with the mouse. You can move directly between hits in either HTML or PDF documents.
The figure below shows more explicitly how to navigate between hits in a PDF document (assuming that you have Adobe's Acrobat Reader 3.0 or higher).
Pharmaplayers Search Reports
You can create a search report assembled from sentences or paragraphs in the source documents which contain matches for your keyword(s), and you can export this to a wordprocessor. You can also create mailing lists based on your searches.Users of a premium business information product such as PP may be required to prepare market reports, competitor surveys, applications for government or other grants, business plans, flotation prospectuses, and so on. Such tasks are greatly assisted if the output of a search is presented in an easily assimilable form, i.e. one that can be read without opening and scanning large numbers of documents, and from which portions may be incorporated - with appropriate modifications - into the author's work. This is the primary purpose of the search report feature. Search reporting is also an unambiguous means of identifying the source documents most relevant to the user's query, because all occurrences of all keywords are presented in context in one screen.
The first step in creating a search report is to select some documents from the search results page. By default, all documents will be included, but if you select some (e.g. four of particular interest) then only these will be reported. A selection is made by clicking on the document name while at the same time holding down the CONTROL key on your keyboard. Then, using the menu bar at the top of the screen, click on Search > Search Report:
The next step is to choose the amount of context, i.e. the numbers of words or paragraphs surrounding each hit that will be retrieved. The search report is then generated and becomes available for viewing, saving, and/or printing. If you press "OK" on either of the two context dialogs below, you will see an example of a search report using the keyphrase "stem cell" and showing fifteen words or one paragraph of context.
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