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To use a search, one has to enter the text in the Search text box and hit the search button. Optionally, advanced search Advanced search can be performed just by inserting the Search Parameters like AND, OR, NEAR and NOT with the search text. The Wild card search can also be performed by bracing changing the search text with * marks.

The below table helps you user in understanding the various operators that can be used to perform advanced search on this wiki site, It also gives you . Here, we have used some different scenarios with examples of using different parameters to help you make users make understand when what to be used whatin Search box.

OperatorContextExample
Matched Phrase search
Exact Match search (" ")

Use the double quotes

with

in the search

text

to get the

results matching the search phrase

exact match

Note :

The site will exclude all the stop words (and,the,or) even though

DBSync wiki Confluence ignores common words (stop words) — such as 'and', 'the', 'or', and 'it' — even if they are included

with

within double quotes.

Search with phrase

Searching for "iPaaS" will only return

all the pages on site which is having "iPaas" in its content

pages containing 'iPaas', because 'the' and 'it' are stop words.

AND search
To

Use AND (in capital letters) to search for

the

content that

is having both the words in the search text, Use AND operator in capitals

contains more than one search term.

iPaaS AND integration

are the search text and search will return the pages which contains both of words.

 finds content containing both 'iPaaS' and 'integration'

OR search
To

Use OR (in capital letters) to search for

the

content that

is having

contains one of the

words in the search text, Use OR operator in capitals

terms.

iPaaS OR integration

are the search text and search will return the pages that either has iPaaS or integration in its content.

 finds content containing either 'iPaaS' or 'integration'

NOT search

Use NOT

operator when you want to search for the content that is having one word and want to exclude another word in the search text

(in capital letters) to exclude a word from your search.

iPaaS NOT integration

are the search text and search will return the pages that are having iPaaS in the content, Search will not return the content that is having integration in its content.

 finds content containing 'iPaaS' but NOT 'integration'

Excluded term search

To search for content that

is having both of words but not a word that is separated by '-'.

contains 'iPaaS' and 'integration' but not 'DBSync':

To search for content that is having iPaaS and integration but not DBSync.
Group search terms

To search for content that

contains a word which is must

must contain 'iPaaS' but can contain

other words also. use the

either 'integration' or 'DBSync', use brackets to group the search

texts

terms:

To search for content that must contain DBSync but can contain iPaaS or integration in the search text.

(iPaaS OR integration) AND DBSync will return the pages that has DBSync in its content, optionally the content having iPaaS or integration if exists.

Title search

To search for pages or articles that contains certain words in the title. Use the option Add a filter at the bottom left of the search page and choose with title.

Now input the search text and

hit

enter to get the search result.

To search for the content that is having title "Getting Started" from the available filter options shall return all the page having title containing "Getting Started".
Date Range search

To search for the content modified within a certain date range, pick from the option in the search page located at the left from the section "Last Modified".

  • Any date : Shall return all the pages with indefinite modified range.
  • Last 24 hours: Shall return the pages that are modified in the last 24 hours.
  • Last Week: Shall return the pages that are modified during last week.
  • Last year: Shall return all the page that are modified in the last year.
  • Custom: Using custom filter,
you can
  • User has to input start date and end date to search.

Use the Add a filter located at the bottom left of the search page to choose created option to search content basing on the created date options. The parameters remain same as explained in the bullet points.

From Add a filter, Choose a option created and selecting Last week will return all the pages which are created during last week.

Wild Card searchyou can use one or more wild characters in your search. The site doesn't not allow wildcards at the beginning of your search, but you can format your search text as a regular expression as a work around.

To search for a key word, you can use *Integration* to find all the results that is having integration word in the content.

you cannot search for *Overview* as it contains the wild cards, way around to search for is /*Overview*/ to find result like overview, over, view.

You can't use the AND keyword inside this statement.

Wildcard search

Multiple characters- Use an asterisk (*) at the end of your word to replace multiple characters.

Multiple wildcards- Use asterisks (*) to add more than one multiple-character wildcard

Single characters- Use a question mark (?) to replace a single character in your search.

Multiple characters- print*

Multiple wildcards- r*c* finds content containing 'react', 'recovery', 'refactor' and so on.

Single characters- b?tter finds content containing 'butter', 'bitter', 'better', 'batter' and so on.

Range search

Use the operator "TO" in capital letters to search for names that falls alphabetically within a specified range.

You

User cannot used AND operator in the combination of search text.

To search all the names from apple to boy , pass the search text as [apple To boy] which result all the names that falls in the range of apple to boy.
Proximity search

Use a tilde character followed by a number, to find two words within a certain number of words of each other.

"Salesforce connector" ~1 will return the search result as "Salesforce connector" but not "Salesforce & QuickBooks integration"

Combined searchCombined search is nothing but combining various search texts together("Integration" AND "iPaaS") AND - DBSync is the example for the search text if
you want
user wants to use combined search.