# Setting the appropriate scope

You can narrow down your working scope by setting the appropriate filter criteria.

Content in the information center can be filtered by different criteria, including platform, product name, and version. You can filter out content to work with a smaller set of topics.

Excluded topics that do not meet the criteria or do not belong to your topic sets of your scope are not displayed in the navigation tree when you synchronize your display.

- Using the existing scope
  You can use the existing scope to narrow down your working scope.
- Modifying the existing scope
  You can modify your original scope to meet your new requirement.
- Creating a new scope
  You can create the new scope according to your new requirements.

Parent topic: Viewing information in the help system