Settings

To access, click the 4-dot icon, and then select Settings.

• Preferences
  • Mode Preference
  • Filter Preferences
    • Manually Apply Filters
    • Customize Result Filter Order
  • Preferred Patent Office
  • Structure Preferences
    • Similarity Settings
    • Display CAS Index Name
    • Show Structures on Reference Detail
  • Substance Preferences
  • Supplier Preferences
  • Search Types
• Application Settings
  • Date and Time
  • Notifications

After editing a setting or preference, click the CAS SciFinder logo to return to the Home page. Note: Any other open SciFinder tabs/pages must be refreshed for any setting changes to apply.

Preferences

Mode Preference

You may customize your CAS SciFinder experience and prioritize the results you see by selecting either a research or IP focus area:

• Research Focus:
  • Prioritizes Advanced Search, Search CAS Lexicon, Patent Markush, and Retrosynthetic Analysis features on the home page.
    
    
  • Reference result filters are prioritized with Document Type, Substance Roles, Publication Year, and Language appearing at the top of the filter panel.
    
    
  • Reaction result set filters are prioritized with Substance Roles, Reagent, Yield, and Number of Steps appearing at the top of the filter panel.  
• IP Focus:
  • Prioritizes Prior Art Discovery, Patent Markush, Advanced Search, and Retrosynthetic Analysis features on the home page.
    
    
  • Reference result filters are prioritized with Patent Office, Legal Status, and Classification Code filters appearing at the top of the filter panel.
    
    

Filter Preferences

Manually Apply Filters

By default, Manually Apply Filters is off. Turning this setting on displays an Apply Filters button, which must be clicked to apply the selected filter(s).

Customize Result Filter Order

This setting enables you to select the filters that display and the order in which they appear for Substance, Reaction, Reference, and Supplier results.

Click Edit for a result type to customize its filters.

By default, all available filters display in the Included Filters column. To remove a filter from displaying for the result type, click-and-drag it to the Unused and Available Filters column.

To change the display order of the Included Filters, click-and-drag the filter name to the desired place in the list.

Any customizations you make will remain until you click the reset filter order link.

Preferred Patent Office

Click Edit to set your preferred patent offices displayed at the top of a result set.

Structure Preferences

Similarity Settings

Select the type of similarity matching used when using a structure in your search:

• Fingerprint Similarity: Structure similarity is calculated based on an extended connectivity feature that considers each atom in the structure along with its neighbors.
• Standard Screen-Based Similarity: Similarity scores are based on a two-dimensional small molecule comparison using a screen-based similarity metric.

Display CA Index Name

By default, Display CAS Index Name is off. When this setting is on, the CAS index name for a substance displays instead of the CAS preferred name.

ON	OFF

Show Structures on Reference Detail

When this setting is on, structures appear in the Substances section of a Reference Detail page.

ON	OFF

Substance Preferences

Click Edit to customize the physical properties displayed on substance result sets, bringing forward those properties (if present) that are more interesting to you.

In the Substance Properties Display window, the default selected properties are shown at the top. You may have up to six properties selected; clicking X removes a property.

In the example below, I've cleared two defaults and selected two new properties. I'll click the Save button to refresh the results displaying my selected properties. Note: The selected properties will apply to all subsequent substance results sets until you reset to defaults; all result sets will not have all of the properties selected.

Supplier Preferences

Click Edit to view and edit the preferred suppliers that appear in a supplier search results.

Search Types

Turning Search Types ON displays the search type tabs above the main search field on the home page.

Application Settings

Date and Time

These settings control the date and time format displayed in your search history, task history, alerts, and saved items.

Notifications

On by default, turn this setting off to stop receiving emails when new results are added to all alert-enabled saved items.