Using FDO

Power Search Results Screen

The Power Search Results Screen displays your results grouped by database and placed in two columns, one for Item and one that varies by database. The first up to five results for each database are displayed. The default sort order displays results by Item from A to Z for grantmakers, companies, grants, and 990s; by date posted for news, PubHub, nonprofit literature, and jobs; and by deadline date for RFPs.

You can see all the results for each database by clicking the "See all" link for each one, which opens the full results list.

The Power Search Results Screen has several components:

Guided Search Options. Located on the left side of the screen, the Guided Search Options enable you to broaden or narrow your search directly from the search results screen. For more information, see the Guided Search section below.
Search Within Results Field. Enables you to conduct a keyword search within your current search results. You can also select "New search" from the drop-down menu to conduct a new Power Search without returning to the Power Search tool on the Home Screen.
Results List. Displays a list of items retrieved by your search, grouped by database. The Results List includes each item's name and a second column displaying date or grantmaker or company location.

Guided Search

Located on the left side of the screen, the guided search options enable you to broaden or narrow your search directly from the search results screen. The options provided are relevant to your current search criteria and your current search results.

To broaden your results, unselect a check box associated with your current search criteria. For example, unselecting the check box associated with a keyword you used to search within your results will broaden your results to include those items that had appeared before you narrowed by keyword.

To narrow your results, click on a database name in the Narrow Your Results area. For example, clicking Grantmakers in the Narrow Your Results area will narrow your results to display only the subset of items found in the Grantmakers database. The number in parentheses to the right of a database name indicates the number of items available in that database; database names are displayed in descending order based on this number. Your narrowed results will be displayed on a new database-specific search results screen.

To hide the guided search options to conserve screen space, click the "hide" link. When you hide the guided search options, a criteria line will appear at the top of the page displaying the criteria associated with your current search results. To view the guided search options once again, click the "show" link.

To return to the Power Search tool on the Home Screen, click the Power Search tab at the top of the page. To view an item, click on an item name to open a new screen displaying the record for that item.