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Enter the text in the Search text box and click on 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 user in understanding the various operators that can be used to perform advanced search on this wiki site, It also gives a . Here, we have used some different scenarios with examples of using different parameters to help users make understand when what to be used whatin Search box.
Operator | Context | Example |
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Matched Phrase searchExact Match search (" ") | Use the double quotes with in the search text to get the results matching the search phraseexact 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 contentpages containing 'iPaas', because 'the' and 'it' are stop words. |
AND searchTo | Use AND (in capital letters) to search for thecontent that is having both the words in the search text, Use AND operator in capitalscontains 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 thecontent that is havingcontains one of the words in the search text, Use OR operator in capitalsterms. | 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 user wants 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 mustmust contain 'iPaaS' but can contain other words also. use theeither 'integration' or 'DBSync', use brackets to group the search textsterms: | 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".
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 search | User can use one or more wild characters in his/her search. The site doesn't not allow wildcards at the beginning of his/her search, but User can format his/her search text as a regular expression as a work around. | To search for a keyword, User can use *Integration* to find all the results that is having integration word in the content. User 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. 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 search | Combined search is nothing but combining various search texts together | ("Integration" AND "iPaaS") AND - DBSync is the example for the search text if user wants to use combined search. |