Advanced Search Operators
Use an Advanced Search Operator to limit the scope of your search by filetype, date range, or specific area of the site:
Filetype search:
Find documents of a specific type of file, like PDF, Excel, or Word.
- How: add “filetype:XXX” after your search term. Substitute pdf for PDFs, xls for Excel files, doc for Word Docs, or ppt for PowerPoint.
- Examples:
- LMP map filetype:pdf will return only “LMP Map” site search results in PDF format
- Markets filetype:ppt will return only “Markets” site search results in PowerPoint format
- Planning filetype:doc will return only “Planning” site search results in Word Doc format
Daterange search:
Filter search results to those published within a specific date range
- How: add “daterange:YYYY-MM-DD..YYYY-MM-DD” after your search term. Substitute the year-month-day from date to year-month-day to date to establish the date range.
- Example:
- Planning daterange:2010-01-01..2010-12-31 will return “Planning” search results published between 01/01/10 and 12/31/10.
- Planning daterange:2010-01-01..2010-12-31 will return “Planning” search results published between 01/01/10 and 12/31/10.
Advanced Search Operators can be combined together. For example, if you want to find all PDF Documents between March 31st, 2008 and March 31st, 2010 containing the term "tmnsr", you would enter the following search: "tmnsr filetype:pdf daterange:2008-03-31..2010-03-31 "
Collections
Filter your search results by Collections – or areas of the site – by selecting a Collection from the drop down menu on the advanced Search Page. Available site areas include:
- Committees
- Customer Service, Registration & Training
- Forecasting & Interchange Data
- General Information, Press Releases, Newsletters
- Generation & Resources, DR, Interconnection
- Markets Data & Administration
- Market Rule 1, ISO-NE Manuals & Procedures
- Notices & Calendar Events
- Settlements, Billing & Financial Assurance
- Transmission Planning & Operation, System Planning
Sort By Date/Relevance
By default, your returned results will be sorted by the Relevance score assigned to the result by our internal Google Search engine. You can re-sort your results by Date to re-order your results starting with the most-recently posted result. You can always return to the Relevance ranking by clicking Relevance again.
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More Tips
Use multiple words in search query
Using two or more words in your search query will produce better, more relevant results than one generic word. For example, searching for forward capacity market will return far better results than searching for market. Remember, the more specific your query is, the better your results will be.
Use quotation marks if searching for a phrase
Placing quotes around a phrase tells the search engine to return results where those words fall in that exact order. For example, searching for "forward capacity market" will return results where the exact phrase forward capacity market appears.
Without quotes the results will include those three words but not necessarily in the correct order and not necessarily next to each other.
Use combination words
Further refine your search results by using combination words such as AND, OR, and NOT. Always capitalize your combination words.
For example, searching for transmission AND studies will return results where both the word transmission and studies appear on a page.
Try using:
- AND – Searches both words and displays results where only both are present (e.g. transmission AND studies)
- NOT – Excludes word following NOT operator from query and displays results where preceding word(s) are present without the excluded word (e.g. transmission NOT studies)
- OR – Searches both words and displays results where either is present (e.g. transmission OR studies)
- BEFORE – Displays results where first search word appears before second search word (e.g. transmission BEFORE studies)
- AFTER – Displays results where first search word appears after second search word (e.g. studies AFTER transmission)
Use a * wildcard in search query
Using a * wildcard can expand the number of matches for a particular request. Adding * to your search will match any number of characters before, after or within a word.
For example, searching for regula* will find the words regulatory, regulation and any other word that starts with regula.