Note: There can be a delay between
the time that an object (for example, a report or an exploration)
is created or changed and when the search is updated.
The following fields in
metadata are searched:
The search field on
the menu bar supports the following types of searches:
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in-word wildcards
Note: A wildcard search has a limit
of 200 words.
Use the asterisk (*) to represent possible
characters in a particular position in a word to generalize the word or to make it easier to
find in a search. For example, if you specify
“cat*”,
then the search matches any word with the prefix
cat,
such as cats, category, catfish, and so on.
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spaces in
strings that use
quotation marks indicate that the words are considered together as a phrase for the search. For example,
suppose that you search for
"Sample
Report”. The search matches
Sample
Report 1 and
A Sample Report,
but not
Sample Values Report or
Sample-Report.
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For example, if you
specify “A AND B”,
then only documents that contain both A and B are returned.
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plus (+) and minus (-) syntax
The plus (+) sign and
minus (-) sign are prefix operators. This means that the operator
precedes the search term that is required or excluded, rather than
following it. For example:
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Specifying 2012 2013
2014
matches documents that contain any of the three
terms.
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Specifying +2012 +2013
+2014
matches only documents that contain all three terms.
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Specifying 2012 2013
-2014
matches documents that contain 2012
or 2013
,
but only if they do not contain 2014
.
Here are some considerations for searching from the classic home page:
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Single- and multiple-word searches
that are plain text have a wildcard appended to them. For example,
if you search for the word sample,
then it is converted to sample*.
This means that you get different results than if you entered “sample”, +sample,
or *sample*.
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The search is not case sensitive.
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Up to 5000 items can be returned
in a single search. If your search results exceed 5000 items, then
the first 5000 items appear, and a message is displayed at the top
of the
Search Results window. The message tells you how many results matched your search and how many have
been displayed. Narrowing your search using the
search field enables the relevant search results to be displayed. When you submit a new search
that returns fewer than 5000 items, you can see all the search results.
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Search results on the classic home page are not ranked. In the
workspace, you can use the
Sort
by drop-down list to specify that you want the list of items to sort by
Alphabetical ascending,
Alphabetical
descending,
Date ascending,
or
Date descending. The default is
Alphabetical
ascending.
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A search
string must be shorter than 4,000 characters.