3.4. Complex/advanced search

The advanced search dialog has fields that will allow a more refined search, looking for documents with all given elements, a given exact phrase, none of the given elements, or a given file name (with wildcard expansion). All relevant fields will be combined by an implicit AND clause. All fields except "Exact phrase" can accept a mix of single words and phrases enclosed in double quotes.

Advanced search will let you search for documents of specific mime types (ie: only text/plain, or text/HTML or application/pdf etc...). The state of the file type selection can be saved as the default (the file type filter will not be activated at program start-up, but the lists will be in the restored state).

You can also restrict the search results to a sub-tree of the indexed area. If you need to do this often, you may think of setting up multiple indexes instead, as the performance will be much better.

Click on the Start Search button in the advanced search dialog, or type Enter in any text field to start the search. The button in the main window always performs a simple search.

Click on the Show query details link at the top of the result page to see the query expansion.