You can search for key concepts in a collection of data by using search operators.
- On the Navigation Sidebar, in the Documents section, click the archive, bucket, or dataset that you want to search through.
- In the search box on the top-right, type the search term(s) and operators (if any), and then click the Search button (looks like a magnifying glass). Search operators are defined below.
- Optional: Add the selected items to a bucket.
- To add the items to a new bucket, click New, type a name for the bucket, and then click Create Bucket.
- To add the items to an existing bucket, click Existing or Selected, and then select a bucket.
Search Operators
Operator |
Definition |
Example |
term |
Any term (excluding stop words such as “the”, “he”, “she”, etc. Usually these are words or acronyms. |
house Entering the term house will search for records containing the word house. |
quotes |
Terms can be enclosed in double quotes to look for phrases. |
“white house” Entering “white house” will search for the entire phrase with the embedded whitespace (space character), instead of white and house as individual terms. |
wildcard |
Append an asterisk character (*) onto the end of a term. |
ca* Entering ca* will find cat, car, cantaloupe, etc. |
AND |
Logical AND of the terms. All of the terms must exist in the record. |
blue AND green Only records containing both the term blue and the term green will be found. |
OR |
Logical OR of the terms. This is the default for a list of terms without an explicit OR operator. |
blue OR green Records containing the term blue or the term green, or both terms, will be found. |
NOT |
Logical NOT (negation) of the next term or group. |
NOT blue All records that do not contain the term blue will be found. |
group |
Terms and clauses can be grouped in parentheses ( ) up to five levels deep. |
(house OR home) AND (green AND blue) Records containing both the terms green and blue, and that also contain either the term house or the term home will be found. |
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