Advanced (unlimited search options, requires knowledge of SQL language)
Very easy: Browser Style Search
This search screen resembles an Internet Search Engine (like Google) and search results are presented in a similar fashion.
This search mode is also available as a separate application.
Moderately easy:
Press Ctrl-F or select Search->Search Items to display this dialog.
The first search option specifies where to search:
Text:
Remarks: Full-Text or Boolean Full-Text search in item remarks
Remarks & Filenames: as above, but also search in filenames
Filenames: search in filenames only
Keywords: search in keywords only and display items linked to found keyword(s)
There is a number of special characters you can use, depending on whether you search in remarks or in filenames. These are displayed in the right pane.
Date: Search in date fields like recording date or file date
Boolean Full-Text search: (only with MySQL databases)
The boolean full-text search capability supports the following operators:
+ A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in every row returned. - A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any row returned. < > These two operators are used to change a word's contribution to the relevance value that is assigned to a row. The < operator decreases the contribution and the > operator increases it. ( ) Parentheses are used to group words into subexpressions. ~ A leading tilde acts as a negation operator, causing the word's contribution to the row relevance to be negative. It's useful for marking noise words. A row that contains such a word will be rated lower than others, but will not be excluded altogether, as it would be with the - operator. * An asterisk is the truncation operator. Unlike the other operators, it should be appended to the word, not prepended. " The phrase, that is enclosed in double quotes ", matches only rows that contain this phrase literally, as it was typed.
Note: if you cannot find some words: Some common words are in the MySQL's so-called 'stopword file' and these words are not included in the search index and cannot be found. Use the MySQLAdministrator application to change the server settings to use a different stopword file or no stopword file at all. Also please take note of the 'min_word_length' server variable.