Fitch & Mather employees who want to find library items can use the CML to search in various ways. From the home page, a user clicks Search for Library Materials, which runs the Library.asp page. Then, using #include directives, Library.asp presents ASP pages including Dfilter.asp and Dsearch.asp. This is the display that Library.asp creates after a user clicks Search for Library Materials:
From this page you can launch a keyword search, which you can refine using the operators AND, OR, and NEAR. You can also use an asterisk (*) for wildcarding. (Query strings that contain asterisks must be enclosed in quotation marks, but the quotation marks are added by the Search component.) See also Full-Text Search in the CML. The various media types of library materials (audio/visual, books, periodicals, and so on) are referred to as "collections" in the FmLib database. For more about filtering your search, see About Dfilter.asp.
At this point, the CML begins to use elements other than just ASP code. For example, code that can parse search strings would make client-side script unnecessarily large and slow, so the CML uses a server-side COM component called Search.