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Please put in search keyword below. You can also put in boolean operators to the keyword. If you are not sure about the syntax please click here to view the 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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