Tech Tip: New Advanced Search Syntax Strings for Laserfiche 8.1
In this week’s Tech Tip, we’ll look at four advanced search syntax strings that are new in Laserfiche 8.1—Parent Entry Name, Child Entry Name, Shortcut ID, and Shortcut Name—and show you how you can effectively add them to your search arsenal.
February 8th, 2010When searching for entries in a repository, most Laserfiche users employ two main search tools, Quick Search and the standard search types in the Search Pane. However, what some users are unaware of is that there is also a wealth of additional searches available in Laserfiche that can only be performed with the use of advanced search syntax. In this week’s Tech Tip, we’ll look at four advanced search syntax strings that are new in Laserfiche 8.1—Parent Entry Name, Child Entry Name, Shortcut ID, and Shortcut Name—and show you how you can effectively add them to your search arsenal. Full story »



Time was, when an officer from Ontario’s Hamilton Police Service (HPS) responded to investigate a call about an EDP (emotionally disturbed person), they’d have two choices to determine risk factors as they proceeded: Drive back to the station with the EDP to look up past reports – or place a call and wait for a Records Clerk to pull the report and read it to them over the phone. Either way, the officer would be off the street, sometimes for hours, waiting for the necessary information to act on.