| 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
fields. |
| 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. |
