# Limiting searches in online documentation?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/limiting-searches-in-online-documentation/82980>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [December 11, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/limiting-searches-in-online-documentation/82980 "2023-12-11T15:39:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![peter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/peter)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/limiting-searches-in-online-documentation/82980/1 "2023-12-11T15:39:22Z")

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I may be missing something fundamental here.

If I go to the [Ignition 8.1 online documentation](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81) and type something into the search box, it returns results for every version of Ignition (EG here I typed "pending" into the search box):

![Screen Shot 2023-12-11 small](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/c/ec4e0d26cd2b1bdcbf67503904d4aacbb7be6b19.png)

Is there anyway to limit the search results only to version 8.1? I took a look at the "search tips", the "filter results by", and the "advanced search", but nothing leaps out as how to restrict the results to only version 8.1.

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**Author:** ![dkhayes117](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/dkhayes117/32/68344_2.png) [@dkhayes117](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkhayes117)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/limiting-searches-in-online-documentation/82980/2 "2023-12-11T15:46:33Z")

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There are two search boxes, one on the top left and one on the top right. I believe the one on the left only searches the current selected version, where the top right one will search in all versions.

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**Author:** ![peter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/peter)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/limiting-searches-in-online-documentation/82980/3 "2023-12-11T15:48:38Z")

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> [@peter](#):
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> [Ignition 8.1 online documentation](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81)

No wonder I was confused. Two boxes labeled "Search" with totally different behaviors!

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**Author:** ![dkhayes117](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/dkhayes117/32/68344_2.png) [@dkhayes117](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkhayes117)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/limiting-searches-in-online-documentation/82980/4 "2023-12-11T15:49:40Z")

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I didn't know the difference until I saw your question and checked 😅

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/limiting-searches-in-online-documentation/82980/5 "2023-12-11T15:54:31Z")

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Myriad issues (such as this) with Confluence have the docs team actively migrating to an alternate platform for the manual.