Access to the Technical Notes is based on a search key which you normally define through the documentation menu. The only possible search key for the Workshop Repair Manuals is the technical context. However, in the case of the Technical Notes, the options are broader (recent notes, systematic recalls, etc.; see the section headed Selecting the Technical Notes)

The program makes up the list of all the documents relating to this search key and filters it depending on the current vehicle before displaying it to the user.

This is possible because the application conditions are assigned to each of the documents. These application conditions are defined in index of the SITERE Documentation database for the Technical Notes. They use a small number of technical specifications of the vehicle (model, type of engine, gearbox type and, for the Technical Notes, production number).

What happens if a user gives only a partial definition of the vehicle?

Once it has made up the list of all documents matching the search key, Dialogys turns to analysing the application conditions of each of the documents found. If, for a document, a technical specification of the vehicle required for determining the relevance of the document to the vehicle is missing, Dialogys prompts the user to enter the specification.

If the user does not respond, the document is retained in the final list, along with all the documents which depend on the technical specification concerned: the list supplied is therefore the list of all documents which might be relevant to the vehicle thus defined.

If the user responds, the analysis can be carried out with all the accuracy required. If the user replies to all the questions given by Dialogys, he will obtain the list of all the documents which are actually relevant to the vehicle defined.

Therefore, the better the vehicle is documented, the more precise the selection will be (and the shorter the list).