Using This Help System

The Links tab on the main help menu contains links to all of the information available through the "Help" and "Want to Know More?" links in the previous 340B application.

• Topics contained in this help system will appear on the left side of the page when you click their links.
• Topics that are accessed through links to the HRSA website will display in a separate tab in your browser.
• PDF documents will display in a separate browser window.

Think of breadcrumbs as a You Are Here… indicator of where you are in the help system. Clicking a breadcrumb link will take you back to a particular topic.

This help system includes a full-text search function to allow you to locate help on a particular subject.

1. Type your search term in the space provided and click the Search button (magnifying glass).

   • The system will return a list help topics that most closely match your search text with a couple of lines to the topic text.

     

     The search results are weighted, meaning that the topics at the top of the search results page contain more prominent instances of the search terms.

2. Click the topic title to view that topic.

Search Terms

• Searches are not case-sensitive.

• To search for a specific phrase, enclose the search terms in quotation marks. For example, this search:

  "contract pharmacy"

  returns only the topics in which that two-word phrase appears.

• When you enter multiple topics, the search returns only the topics that contain all of the terms. (This is known as a Boolean AND search.)
• You can include Boolean operators with the search terms to perform advanced searches that include or exclude some topics based on the search terms.

Highlight Colors

When you display a topic, the search terms are highlighted. When you search on multiple terms, each matched term uses a different highlight color.

• Term 1
• Term 2
• Term 3
• Term 4

Removing Highlight Colors

To remove the highlight colors from the page, click the highlight removal button on the toolbar:

Advanced Searches (Boolean Operators)

When you run a search on more than one term, you can use Boolean operators to refine the results.

Find topics that contain all of the search terms (Boolean AND)

By default, a search returns only the topics that contain all of the search terms. For example, the following search terms return only the pages that contain both "contract" and "pharmacy":

contract pharmacy

Adding the Boolean AND operator in complex searches

When you perform a complex search, you can use any of these following operators to specify a Boolean AND search:

AND (not case-sensitive)

+

&

Examples of Boolean AND searches

For example, all of these searches are equivalent:

contract pharmacy

contract and pharmacy

contract AND pharmacy

contract & pharmacy

contract + pharmacy

Find topics that contain some or all of the search terms (Boolean OR)

A Boolean OR search returns all topics that contain some or all of the terms. You can use either of these operators:

OR (not case-sensitive)

|

For example, all of the following searches return the topics that contain the term "contract," the term "pharmacy," or both:

contract or pharmacy

contract OR pharmacy

contract | pharmacy

Exclude topics that contain some of the search terms (Boolean NOT)

A Boolean NOT search excludes topics that contain one or more of the terms. You can use any of these operators:

NOT (not case-sensitive)

!

^

For example, all of the following searches return the topics that contain the term "contract" but do not include the term "pharmacy":

contract not pharmacy

contract NOT pharmacy

contract ! pharmacy

contract ^ pharmacy

Specify complex search criteria using expression parentheses

Use parentheses to combine Boolean phrases and search terms. The following table lists a few examples.

Search Expression	Results Returned
contract AND (pharmacy OR export)	Topics that contain "contract" as well as either "pharmacy" or "export."
contract OR (pharmacy NOT export)	Topics that contain "contract" or "pharmacy." Topics that contain both "pharmacy" and "export" are excluded, however.
contract OR (pharmacy AND export)	Topics that contain "contract" or that contain both the terms "pharmacy" and "export."

This help system uses drop-down text to collapse and expand topic contents to allow you to just see the high points and to drill down as you wish.

When you click the topic title, the text is expanded. When you click the title again, the content is collapsed.

Click the left and right arrow icons to display the previous or the next topic, respectively.

Clicking the Expand/Collapse All icon expands all of the collapsed drop-down topics on the page.

Clicking the Expand/Collapse All icon again collapses all of the expanded topics.

Clicking the Print icon opens your computer's Print dialog to allow you to print the topic you are viewing.

A printable version of the entire manual is available in PDF format from the Links menu.

A PDF-format 340B OPAIS The 340B Office of Pharmacy Affairs Information System (OPAIS) is a collection of information submitted by covered entities, contract pharmacies, and manufacturers maintained and verified by HRSA's Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA). guide for your user role is available from the Links option in the main help menu. Clicking the link will open the guide in a new browser window.

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"How Do I…" topics are quick-reference "cheat sheets" for common help topics, providing just the basic instruction steps without illustrations.

In most cases, the "How Do I…" topic will provide a link to the full instruction topic.

To return to the start page, click the HRSA logo at the top of the screen.