Advanced Search
Please put in search keyword below. You can also put in boolean operators to the keyword. If you are not sure about the syntax
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query syntax
.
| Query |
Example |
Notes |
| single term |
document |
Searches for documents that contain "document"
term in the default field. |
| phrase |
"important document" |
Searches for documents that contain the phrase "important
document" in the default fiels. |
| searching fields |
title:document |
Searches for documents that contain "document"
term in the "title" field. |
| wildcard search |
doc?ment |
Single-character wildcard search. It will match "document"
and "dociment" but not "docooment". |
| |
document* |
Multi-character wildcard search. It will match "document"
and "documentation". |
| fuzzy search |
document~ |
Search based on similar spelling. |
| |
document~0.9 |
Search based on similar spelling. 0.9 is the required
similarity (default: 0.5) |
| proximity search |
"important document"~5 |
Find words of a phrase that are not next to each other.
Maximum distance in this example is 5 words. |
| range search |
author:{Einstein TO Newton} |
Searches for document with "author" field value
between specified values. |
| |
date:{20050101 TO 20050201} |
Searches for document with "date" field (DateTime
type) value between specified dates. |
| relevance |
important^4 document |
Set boost factor of the term "important" to 4.
Default boost factor is 1. |
| |
"important document"^4 "search engine" |
You can set boost factor for phrases too. |
| OR operator |
important document |
"OR" is the default operator. |
| |
important OR document |
The default field must contain either "important"
or "document". |
| AND operator |
important AND document |
The default field must contain both word. |
| + operator |
important +document |
The default field must contain "document" and may
contain "important". |
| NOT/- operator |
-important document |
The default field must contain "document" but not
"important". |
| grouping |
(important OR office) AND document |
Use parentheses for expression grouping. |
| |
author:(Einstein OR Newton) |
Parentheses work with fields as well. |
Prohibited Queries
| Query |
Examples |
Notes |
| wildcard at the beginning of a term |
?ocument, *ocument |
Throws Lucene.Net.QueryParsers.ParseException. |
| stop words |
a, the, and |
Stop words are not indexed. |
| special characters: + - && || ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \ |
\+, \: |
Use a backslash to escape the special characters. |
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