General RulesType of Match Required:
- Capitalization is ignored. If you type in Dog, search will find documents containing both Dog and dog.
- Punctuation marks are ignored.
- Ignored words - Very short words, such as single character words, and very common words, such as "the", may be ignored and not searched for.
- Language - You must type in text characters for the language in which the form is displayed. For example, if the form is displayed in Japanese, you must type Japanese characters into the text entry fields. However, you can always type into the fields English characters from the Portable ASCII codeset.
This drop-down menu appears in the Simple search form and lets you select the type of word match that is required before a document is returned as matching your search words. The choices are:PHRASE, all words, this order :
Phrase search means that all the words must appear together just as typed. All the words in the field must be in the document, next to each other, and in the order they appear in the search field. For example, if you type "red boat" in the search field, a document containing this sentence will match: "The red boat sank in the ocean". But a document containing this sentence will not match: "The boat had a red flag".ALL these words, any orderAll of the words in the search field must be in the document. They can be in any order in the document and do no have to be next to each other. For example if you type in the words "red boat", any document that contains both the words red and boat will match. It will match even if the words are in reverse order (boat red) or if they are not even in the same sentence.ONE or MORE of these words, any orderOnly ONE of the words needs to be in a document for it to match your search. For example, if you type "red boat", any document that just has "red" in it will match and any document that just contains "boat" will match. Documents that contain both words will also match.