Search by name

Build 1501 on 14/Nov/2017  This topic last edited on: 17/Mar/2016, at 18:07

You can search content by name, in all navigators and search dialog boxes, where the Name or Name/Title field appears.

Note: the name applies in general on articles, editorial images, tasks, budgets etc; the title applies mostly on wire or archived stories, images, audios, videos and documents. See also Search by title in stories, images, audios and videos.

The search for name can appear in two flavors, depending on the template, used in the search form.

Click to toggle expandSearch by name as a string

This is available when the template used on the search form is Single.

Enter the name and then click the 113_Refresh_16 refresh button. Only the items that contain the search term in the Name fields are found, and the Title field is not considered. If the operator drop-down is not visible, it is likely that the default operator is Containing.

See Options for string searches to learn how to perform precise searches.

Note: there is no way to determine, without looking at the configuration file, if a given field is "string" or "full-text" search.
Click to toggle expandSearch by name/title as full text

This is available when the template used on the search form is ExaleadFullText.

Note: since build 2711, all ExaleadXXX templates are renamed to FullTextXXX, and the ExaleadFullText became FullText.

Enter the name and then click the 113_Refresh_16 refresh button. All the items that contain the search term either in the Name field or in the Title field are found (and the Title field for articles includes also its headline).

See Options for full-text search to learn how to perform partial searches.

Note: there is no way to determine, without looking at the configuration file, if a given field is "string" or "full-text" search.
Click to toggle expandAbout Solr, SQL or Exalead searches for a name/title

Your system may be configured to search for a name by Solr, SQL or Exalead.

•Solr searches

The searches are partial. If in the Name field with the Containing operator you type test, it finds: test, test01, dragtest, apptesto. There is no need to specify an asterisk. For phrase searches, use the = operator.

•SQL searches

Name searches for a name, and Title searches for a title.

Example:

       <attribute path="[folderObject.name]" op="Containing">

         <ui mode="Normal" labelPosition="Side">

           <template kind="Single" opMode="Hidden" />

         </ui>

      </attribute>

searches indeed the Name field.

The problem is that wire images, under Name column, show the content of the Title field - so can't be retrieved by entering the displayed "name" (title, indeed).

The solution is to add a new search field (for the Title) or to use Exalead searches.

•Exalead searches

Name and Title of all folder objects are both indexed as full-text, in a single fields, named gn4Title. For articles, it includes also the article headline. So if you use the template <template kind="ExaleadFullText"/>, it will search the gn4Title field.

Example:

       <attribute path="[article.name]" >

         <ui mode="Normal" labelPosition="Side">

           <template kind="ExaleadFullText" />

       </ui>  

searches indeed gn4 title field.

In this case you can use a trailing asterisk to perform partial searches:

namesearch1

A down-side of Exalead searches is that there's an one minute delay (or more) between creation/arrival of an item and the moment it gets indexed.

Note

To learn about the differences of name and title, see See Name and title.