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Search Overview

You specify the search criteria by typing one or more search terms (the words or phrase that best describe the information you want to find) into a search field. You can use Boolean operators, quotes, wildcard characters, and/or choose valid data from a list in a field, or specify the type of data to be searched to construct the search criteria. You can also define the search criteria in terms of the objects' metadata (for example, version, language, author, status, and so on).

Basics

The system searches for the words in the full text of all XML objects and their metadata. After clicking the search button, a result list appears with all objects that meet the criteria you defined.

Note: Queries are case-insensitive. You can enter your query in uppercase or lowercase.

Assists

The metadata fields with an assist button indicates that the field contains a limited set of values. The assist button lets you use a list when entering your search criteria, thus preventing you from entering invalid criteria.

Sorting

Sort options can be set before executing the query by selecting the option you want before clicking the search button.

Scopes

Different scopes influence your search result:

  • Version

    You can search on all versions or only the latest version of the objects. The version scope has an impact on the results list. Selecting all versions increases the result ratio of the search while selecting the latest version, limits the results to a specific version of the objects.

  • Language Scope

    You can search all documents in a given language, or select multiple languages. In most cases, the language scope is defaulted by the user language.

  • Object Type

    You can choose to limit the search to specific object types. Selecting the right object type makes the result list specific and affects the number of results.

Operators

Depending on the data type of the field, you can use these operators:

  • Numbers or Dates
    • equal
    • greater than
    • less than
    • greater than or equal
    • less than or equal
    • not equal
  • Strings
    • equal
    • contains

Stemming & Wildcards

  • The default configuration always searches with stemming in the full-text content (that is, in metadata, blob text (data in the object), and XML tags and text).
  • Use the wildcard character * only in words: In words it is interpreted as a wildcard for multiple characters.
  • Do not use the wildcard character * in phrase searches: In phrases, the * character is not interpreted as a wildcard character.
  • Do not use the wildcard character * as the first character in a search. When used as the first character, search fails with an error.
To search forExampleResult
Words with the same prefixcomput*Objects with words beginning with comput such as computer, computing, computation, compute, and so on
Stemmed words (via the full text field only!)flyObjects with words based on the same stem as "fly," such as "flying," "flown," "flew," and so on