To access the user web interface from the CERF application select Manage Account from the Sessions menu.  

You can search remotely by entering the web address for your server as follows:
"http://servername:port/CERF"
Note that you must enter the actual IP address or server name and port for the CERF server.  Use your CERF login to access the web client.

Select Search under the Resources menu:

Full-text search: Files submitted to CERF are indexed for a full-text search.  Some of the file types that are indexed are: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Excel, RTF, Text, PDF, and HTML.  Resource types, text metadata fields, and Controlled vocabulary fields are also indexed. 

Enter a term in the full-text search text box.  The Full-Text Search finds resources using search terms that are contained in the body of the text.  Note: A term is a single word or phrase (a phrase is a group of words surrounded by double quotes).  Multiple terms can be connected by Boolean operators to form a more complex query.  

You may include other parameters in this search at this point or after the search results have been returned.  To add narrow the search, click the Search Parameters button at the bottom of this page.  Select the type of parameter:

Next select the detail for that parameter (in this example, the parameter is Contributor, and the list shows potential contributors who are CERF users):

The search will treat added parameters as an intersection (AND operator), while more than one of the same type of parameter will we treated as an OR.

Click on the Search button.   

Results are returned according to score order (an algorithm determines how good the match is).   See Search Returns. 

Note: Full-text queries for the following terms (when used alone) do not return results:
"a", "an", "and", "are", "as", "at", "be", "but", "by","for", "if", "in", "into", "is", "it", "no", "not", "of", "on", "or", "s", "such", "t", "that", "the", "their", "then", "there", "these","they", "this", "to", "was", "will", "with"