lang/en_utf8/help/search.html

   1 <h1>How to Search</h1>
   2
   3 <p>Full-text searching supports a number of options, listed below.  You can combine
   4    these to specify your search more precisely.</p>
   5
   6 <table>
   7
   8 <tr>
   9 <td valign="top"><strong>search for these words</strong></td>
  10 <td>For basic searching of one or more words anywhere in the texts, just type them separated by spaces. All words longer than two characters are used.</td>
  11 </tr>
  12
  13 <tr>
  14 <td valign="top"><strong>+search +for these words</strong></td>
  15 <td>The previous example would also match "information" because it contains "for". To force exact matching of a word, use the plus sign.</td>
  16 </tr>
  17
  18 <tr>
  19 <td valign="top"><strong>+search -engine</strong></td>
  20 <td>Use the minus sign if there are particular exact words you don't want included in the search.</td>
  21 </tr>
  22
  23 <tr>
  24 <td valign="top"><strong>"search engine"</strong></td>
  25 <td>To search for a particular phrase, use double quotes around it.</td>
  26 </tr>
  27
  28 <tr>
  29 <td valign="top"><strong>user:Kim</strong></td>
  30 <td>To search for texts by a particular user, prefix a word from their name with "user:".</td>
  31 </tr>
  32
  33 <tr>
  34 <td valign="top"><strong>userid:6</strong></td>
  35 <td>If you know the user id of a particular user, you can search for them like this.</td>
  36 </tr>
  37
  38 <tr>
  39 <td valign="top"><strong>subject:assessment</strong></td>
  40 <td>To search for a word within the subject or title of a text only, prefix the word with "subject:".</td>
  41 </tr>
  42
  43 </table>
  44
  45 <p>For advanced searching, press the search button without typing anything in the words field - you will see
  46    a complete form that makes it easier to do advanced searches.</p>
  47