Want to learn to be a KnowledgeSpace search expert? Use the following tips to get the most out of your KnowledgeSpace searches. |
You can narrow the focus of your search down by using topic searches - each of the TOC Topic categories, such as How-To-Articles has their own Topic specific search:
For an even more refined search, click a subtopic (such as Standardds, Practices and Training) under the main topic and the articles will be further filtered to just that subtopic.
Use double quotes to search for content that contains the phrase 'cheese one', or a phrase where 'cheese' and 'one' are the major words:
"cheese one" |
Note: KnowledgeSpace will ignore common words (stop words), including 'and', 'the', 'or', and more, even if they are included within double quotes.
For example:
To search for content that contains one of the terms, 'chalk' or 'cheese', use the operator OR in capital letters:
chalk OR cheese |
To search for content that contains both the terms 'chalk' and 'cheese', use the operator AND in capital letters:
chalk AND cheese |
To search for content that contains 'chalk' but NOT 'cheese', use the operator NOT in capital letters:
chalk NOT cheese |
To search for content that contains 'chalk' and 'butter' but not 'cheese':
chalk butter -cheese |
To search for content that must contain 'chalk' but can contain either 'cheese' or 'butter', use brackets to group the search terms:
(cheese OR butter) AND chalk |
To search for content with 'chalk' in its title, where title is the field keyword.
title:chalk |
To search for 'butter' or 'batter' you can use a question mark as a wildcard:
b?tter |
To search for 'chicken' or 'chickpea' you can use an asterisk as a wildcard:
chick* |
You can use wildcards anywhere within a word, even at the very beginning:
*chick |
To search for 'chick' or 'chickpea':
c*c* |
You can also combine search characters to get the exact word. For example the search term below will return 'chick' but not 'chickpea':
c*c? |
KnowledgeSpace is case sensitive for wildcard searches.
Note: All the example searches given above will search across the default set of fields which are stored as lower case and therefore all searches of that style should be given lower case search terms (as shown in the examples).
However, if you were to search one of the case sensitive fields, such as 'content-name-untokenized' the case of your search term would need to match the document you are searching for.
Use a tilde character followed by a number, to find two words within a certain number of words of each other.
For example, the following search will return 'Octagon blog post':
"octagon post" ~ 1 |
The following search is not valid:
"octagon post" ~ 0 |
Use the operator 'TO', in capital letters, to search for names that fall alphabetically within a specified range:
[adam TO ben] |
Note: You cannot use the AND keyword inside this statement.
Use a tilde character to find words spelled similarly.
To search for octagon, if unsure about spelling:
octogan~ |
You can also combine various search terms together:
o?tag* AND past~ AND ( "blog" AND "post" ) |
Use the 'labelText:
' prefix to search specifically for content that has a specific label. The table below gives examples of search terms that you can enter into KnowledgeSpace's search box, and the search results that you can expect.
Searching for ... | Returns content that ... |
---|---|
| contains the word ' |
| contains the word ' |
| has the label ' |
| has both labels ' |
Related articles appear here based on the labels you select. Click to edit the macro and add or change labels.