To use a search, one has to enter the text in the Search text box and hit the search button. Optionally, 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 the search text with * marks.
The below table helps you in understanding the various operators that can be used to perform advanced search on this wiki site, It also gives you different scenarios with examples of using different parameters to help you make understand when to be used what.
| Operator | Context | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Matched Phrase search | Use the double quotes with the search text to get the results matching the search phrase Note : The site will exclude all the stop words (and,the,or) even though if they are included with double quotes. | Search with phrase "iPaaS" will return all the pages on site which is having "iPaas" in its content. |
| AND search | To search for the content that is having both the words in the search text, Use AND operator in capitals. | iPaaS AND integration are the search text and search will return the pages which contains both of words. |
| OR search | To search for the content that is having one of the words in the search text, Use OR operator in capitals. | iPaaS OR integration are the search text and search will return the pages that either has iPaaS or integration in its content. |
| 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. | 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. |
| Excluded term search | To search for content that is having both of words but not a word that is separated by '-'. | 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 but can contain other words also. use the brackets to group the search texts | 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 | you 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. |
| Range search | Use the operator "TO" in capital letters to search for names that falls alphabetically within a specified range. You 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 you want to use combined search. |