management system is designed to find electronic objects based on metadata and other information even though the searcher is unaware of the level of detail the publisher might have linked such information to the electronic object for a sharp search upon selecting a first search button 580 the object management system produces search results listing those electronic objects e g documents which match with the search parameters in every category for a standard search however upon selecting a second search button 585 the object management system produces search results listing including those electronic objects which have no entry in a category hence the sharp search function provides a refined search capability over the standard search function even though search profiles are individual objects dedicated for a user the object management system works with a unique identifier id for every search profile it is therefore possible that a user can share a once defined search profile which she considers as useful with any number of colleagues such sharing involves a two step process 1 the unique id for the personal search profile is known and 2 the colleague needs to import the profile conditions into his own set of search profiles by using this number as a reference the unique id of a search profile is revealed in the edit search dialogue as shown in fig5 c when a search profile is selected in profile entry 530 a unique id 555 of the selected profile is displayed within dialogue box 500 in the example below the search profile with the name u201c personal search u201d has the unique id 10085 thereafter the user who wants to import the profile of personal search has to press the import button 590 and.