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*Use OR to to combine search terms to '''broaden''' your search: e.g. search ''vancouver OR "city hall"'' to return descriptions that contain '''either''' search term. | *Use OR to to combine search terms to '''broaden''' your search: e.g. search ''vancouver OR "city hall"'' to return descriptions that contain '''either''' search term. | ||
| − | *Use NOT to '''exclude''' terms: e.g. search ''vancouver NOT "city hall"'' to return descriptions that include ''vancouver'' but do '''not''' contain the phase ''"city hall"''. | + | *Use AND NOT to '''exclude''' terms: e.g. search ''"vancouver" AND NOT "city hall"'' to return descriptions that include ''vancouver'' but do '''not''' contain the phase ''"city hall"''. |
*Boolean operators can be upper- or lowercase. | *Boolean operators can be upper- or lowercase. | ||
Revision as of 07:48, 16 July 2008
Please note that ICA-AtoM is no longer actively supported by Artefactual Systems.
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Advanced search
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ICA-AtoM uses the Zend framework's implementation of the the Lucene search engine. This provides a number of options for advanced searching from within the search box. For a full description of the features supported by Zend's Lucene search, see:
What follows is a selection of some of the most commonly used tools.
Phrases
- Use double quotes to search phrases. E.g. search "city hall" to return records containing these two words together in that exact order.
Boolean operators
- Use AND to combine search terms to narrow your search: e.g. search vancouver AND "city hall" to return only descriptions that contain both search terms.
- Use OR to to combine search terms to broaden your search: e.g. search vancouver OR "city hall" to return descriptions that contain either search term.
- Use AND NOT to exclude terms: e.g. search "vancouver" AND NOT "city hall" to return descriptions that include vancouver but do not contain the phase "city hall".
- Boolean operators can be upper- or lowercase.
- You can substitute symbols for words: & (AND), | (OR), ! (NOT).
- Other Boolean operators are available; see Zend's documentation.
Fields
- You can restrict your search to specific fields by typing the field name followed by a colon ( : ) and the search text (fieldName:searchText).
- E.g. search title:city to return descriptions which include the word city in the title.
- You must enter the exact field name. These are not always intuitive nor do they necessarily correspond to the field label that appears on screen.
- For the list of searchable fields and their names, see Field names for advanced searching.