The default is to print out the title and researcher fields. By unclicking on those boxes or clicking on other boxes, different fields of the search result can be displayed. The user can enter a rank for each field in the text box next to each check box. Entering a rank of 0 will cause that field not to be searched. Default rankings of 10 are in each text box and can be changed by clicking in the text area, deleting the default value by backspacing over it, and typing a new number.
Larger values have a higher rank .
The default values of 10 mean that each field of a record has the same rank so the ranking is relative to the other fields. If the rankings were all 1 instead of 10 they would all have the same rank and the search results would look the same as if the rankings were all 10's or all 100's. Giving a field a higher number than the other fields will cause a record with that field in it to be displayed before records with fields at a lower rank. If a user enters a 3 digit query, or several 3 digit queries separated by semi-colons, only the FOS field will be checked. This is done to avoid confusion with hardware model numbers and other numbers that might be in other fields and not related to field of science codes.