The following tips can help you create searches that return precise and relevant results.
Basic features:
- Every word counts. Every word in the query will be searched and only pages containing ALL words in the query will be returned. Note: Words like a, an, and the (sometimes known as "stop words") will NOT be ignored. The best practice is NOT to include them in your search string if they aren't necessary.
- Search is case insensitive. A search for laserfiche quick fields will return the same results as a search for Laserfiche Quick Fields.
- Punctuation will be ignored. A search for Laserfiche, Long Beach, CA will return the same results as a search for Laserfiche Long Beach CA. Characters that are typically ignored include !?@#^&*()_+{}\ and other special characters.
- Word-stemming in search is supported. This allows you to find all words that naturally stem from the root of your original search term. For example, a search for stop will return stopped or stopping, but not stopper or stoplight.
Advanced features:
- Phrase search(""). Putting double quotes around multiple words will search for those words exactly as typed–in the same order and with the same spacing.
- Exclude terms (-). Add a minus sign immediately before a word to indicate you do not want pages containing this word in your results. There must be a space before the minus sign, but no space between the minus sign and the word to be excluded. To exclude multiple words, repeat the pattern (e.g., Laserfiche -Workflow -WebLink will return pages that contain Laserfiche but neither Workflow nor WebLink.
- OR search. To search for one of two or more words, use OR between the words, with "OR" in ALL CAPS (e.g., searching for Rio OR Avante will return pages containing either Rio or Avante; similarly, searching for Laserfiche Rio OR Avante OR Suite will return pages containing Laserfiche Avante or Laserfiche Rio or Laserfiche Suite.