Executing a Saved Search or AutoAlert
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Executing saved searches and alerts

 

Run a Saved Search

Select the box of the search you want to run and click the Run button to run a saved search from the Saved Searches Page.

OvidSP opens an interim status page.
OvidSP's save-search functionality preserves search strategies, but does not save a record of the databases that were selected when the search was originally executed. When you rerun a saved search, OvidSP searches your currently selected databases, not the database(s) that were selected when the search was originally saved.
Rerunning a saved AutoAlert is different. When you rerun an AutoAlert, OvidSP offers you the option of running the autoalert in currently selected databases, or in the databases that were selected when the AutoAlert was saved.

Run an AutoAlert

From the Saved Searches page, you can run an AutoAlert in either of the two ways:

Running an AutoAlert Manually

Overriding the scheduled run of an AutoAlert:

1.

 

 Select the box of the AutoAlert you want to run.
2. Select a data set.
3. Click the Run button.
   
OvidSP provides three data set options:
  1. Since Last Run: Retrieves records added since the last run of the AutoAlert.
    OvidSP has no results to retrieve if the database(s) has not been updated.

  2. Select Update(s): Opens the AutoAlert (SDI) User Limits Page where you select a range of dates from which to retrieve records.


    OvidSP provides date ranges for each database for a multifile AutoAlert override.

  3. Run in Current Database: Runs the AutoAlert search strategy in the database of your current session.


    For this example, we chose to run the AutoAlert in the database of our current session.

OvidSP runs the AutoAlert's saved search strategy and displays a status page. Click the Main Search Page icon to see results of the run in your search history.

OvidSP does not deduplicate results of manually run AutoAlerts.

OvidSP posts new results to your search history when you run an AutoAlert strategy in the database of your current session. You can save an AutoAlert that contains the same searches but that apply to a different database from there.

 

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