| 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. |