To perform a simple search, enter text or a query
in the Search box and click 
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Click 
to open a quick reference card for query creation assistance.
Click Advanced Search to perform
an advanced search query.
For more search details, see Performing Searches.
The Search Within Results option allows you to perform a search against the current search results.
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Are a subset of the current search results. |
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Cleared |
Are a subset of your entitled news products and services. |
Alternatively, you may also search within your results by selecting an AP topic from the Browse Topics tab.
The Press Releases option is only available to those AP Newspaper organizations that are entitled to it. This feature allows you to perform a one-time search through all AP press releases, yielding a greater number of search results. Press releases are not typically returned from a normal search.
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If Press Releases is... |
Then your search results... |
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Contain content from the:
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Cleared |
Only contain content from AP products to which you are entitled (content viewed via satellite). |
In addition, you can select both Search within results and Press Releases to search within the results retrieved from a press release search.
The Scan News
tab contains search portlets with categories (also referred to as search topics)
that were either created by you or entitled to you. Click a category heading
(with the 
icon) to expand it, displaying all categories under the heading.
Once expanded, click the heading again (now, with the 
icon) to collapse the heading, hiding its categories.
Click any category link to refresh the Center column with that category's news items. Clicking category headings may sometimes yield search results; it depends on how whether AP products and services were assigned to them.
When you click a particular story/media link, the Content window appears with any associated linked and/or similar media (if available).
Click 
in the search portlet's title bar to minimize
the entire portlet. Click 
to maximize the portlet.
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Contains links to past searches (Search History list) that were created using the Search box, which allows you to quickly re-run a previous search. In addition, this portlet allows you to view selected news items from the Center column and perform bulk downloads. (Where enabled) The CCI NewsGate Feed link only appears for customers who use the CCI NewsGate system to manage their news. |
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(Where enabled) Contains search categories that reflect the news to which you are entitled. You will not have access to content to which you have not subscribed. So, the topics within this portlet differ for various customer types and entitlements. For instance, a category under Sports entitled "Olympics" provides access to stories on each 2008 Olympic sport, but not all customers have access to the news on each state's local Olympic athletes. Additionally, the Essential AP pane contains links to Regular Features (AP feature news products). Categories of such products include Sky News Package, History and Arts & Entertainment. |
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Contains news topics that consist of hand-picked news items (using the watch list functionality) that interest their customers. Bureau Chiefs are responsible for managing the Showcases portlet. |
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Contains the saved searches that you created with AP Exchange. Saved searches are editable by clicking either the Advanced Search link in the Top pane or the Saved Searches button in the Navigation bar. If you have more than 20 saved searches, click More Searches at bottom to view all searches from the Saved Searches page. |
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Contains the stock ticker symbols of companies that you displayed using the My Local Companies page. These tickers were either created by you or a colleague within your organization. Click a ticker symbol to display all available financial content related to that company. Click All to display financial content for all of the companies listed in the portlet. |
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Contains links to external Web sites, such as the AP Images application and the Iraq and Afghanistan War Casualties databases (contains casualty information for members of all coalition forces). The content provided in this portlet is dependent on your customer type. |
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(Where enabled) Contains links to other AP products and services beyond those shown in the Essential AP section. The content provided in this portlet is dependent on your customer entitlements. |
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(For participating AP Newspaper customers only) Contains links to third-party content submitted by AP Newspaper customers. The Marketplace allows members to freely share their content with other newspapers. College and Not-for-Profit organizations will only see their respective Marketplace categories. |
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(Where enabled; for AP Newspaper customers only) Contains links Datafeatures content, third-party content distributed by AP from Public Relations companies, syndicates, members or other media companies. |
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(Where enabled; for Digital customers only) Contains links to third-party content. |
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(where enabled; portlet title can vary) Contains links to internal AP Exchange Web pages, such as the Contribute Story and/or Contribution Lineup pages. |
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The most recent searches appear at the top of the Search History list. To clear the Search History list: Click Clear. You cannot remove a single item from the list. There is no limit to the number of searches retained during your current login session. However, the list is cleared each time you log off from AP Exchange. So, the next time you log on, this portlet will initially display [None]. |
(Where enabled) The CCI NewsGate Feed link allows customers to place selected AP Exchange content directly to their CCI NewsGate content management system or set up WebFeed deliveries.
To send AP Exchange content to CCI NewsGate:
Select the desired news items; then drag CCI NewsGate Feed to the CCI NewsGate application. The selected content will appear in XML format for parsing and redistribution.
To create a WebFeed delivery:
Select the desired news items; then click CCI NewsGate Feed to set up the feed in your default reader application.
To download multiple news items:
Select the desired items.
Result: The number of selected items in the Recent
Searches portlet is updated.
Click Download
from the Recent Searches portlet.
Result: The Download
page appears. Your default file formats for downloaded content
appears in the Renditions column.
(If necessary) Select your preferred rendition for each news item.
(If necessary) Unselect the Download option for the items that you do not want to include in your download. By default, the Download option is enabled for all news items.
(Optional) Unselect the Deselect items on successful download option to keep your items selected for future downloads. By default, this option is enabled; it is more common to remove items from the Selected list that have already been downloaded.
Your selected items are combined into a ZIP file. Included in the ZIP file is a download manifest, a text file that contains a file listing of all ZIPPED content along with some supporting metadata.
A new Download page appears, indicating the name of the ZIP file and its file size.
If successful:
Select Save to Disk; then click OK to save the ZIP file to your local machine. Your downloaded ZIP file appears in the Bulk Download History page.
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Tip: If you disabled Download options for any items on the initial Download page, the items will appear at the bottom of this page to download into a separate file. |
If unsuccessful:
AP Exchange indicates the nature of the failure. Retry your bulk download.
To view your selected items:
Click View from the Recent Searches portlet. Only the selected items appear in the Center column as search results.
To clear the download list:
Click Clear from the Recent Searches portlet. If you do not clear the download list between bulk downloads, then your previously selected items will appear in the Download page.
After running a search, click the Browse
Topics tab to display a hierarchical listing of AP news topics
that are specific to your current search results. Click 
or 
to expand or collapse the topic hierarchy, respectively. When you click
a topic within this tab, AP Exchange will search within your current results
to find content related to the selected topic. Enable Narrow
Results to update (restrict) the topic list to reflect the new
search results that appear as you select other topics. Otherwise, the
topic list will not update as you select other topics.
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You must run a search BEFORE clicking the Browse Topics tab. Otherwise, you will not see any topics on the tab. |
Notice that the search’s name displays a “search breadcrumb” trail – the original search name plus the topic’s name.
Click another topic (within or outside of the topic hierarchy) to further narrow your results by this new topic.
Click any link in the trail to return to that previous search.
