Lexis Advance®

Enhancements to the auto-complete dropdown menu

A major upgrade has been carried out on the auto-complete dropdown menu for the big red search box in Advance. This upgrade will now guide you more intuitively to the content you are searching for, with fewer clicks to navigate and overall quicker results.

Entries in the autocomplete menu have been split into three categories.

Publications are your subscribed titles. Selecting these in the auto-complete menu will take you to the table of contents for that publication – this behaviour has not changed.

Documents are exact titles of content pages within Lexis Advance. Selecting one of these will do three things:

1. Wrap your selected suggestion in quotes before the search runs in order to maximise the chance of an exact match on the target document;
2. Run the search as soon as the suggestion is selected; and
3. Override the default results tab to place you straight into the content type where you are most likely to find the result you desire.

Please note, if you do not subscribe to the content that you select from the auto complete menu, you will instead be placed in the first tab that does not produce zero results.

When you select an item in the Legal Phrases section, this will be added to the search box, but the search will not run automatically, allowing you to add search terms and connectors to that phrase.

As legal phrase searches could be intended across any of our content types, these searches will start with search results in your default content type tab (this can be changed in your settings, but unless personalised, this will be cases).

To read the complete Lexis Advance update from the March edition of KeyNews, subscribe here.