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About Open-SearchInput

The Open-SearchInput module enables a user to enter a word or phrase and search the websites designated by the administrator for any relevant match.

Sample 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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