The search form

The search form consists of an upper line where you specify the search range, and in its lower part a number of nested search expressions represented as boxes, each enclosing some search criteria.

A search expression can be of AND or OR type, i.e. an object satisfying the search expression must either satisfy all its criteria (AND) or at least one (OR). A search criterion can either be a simple criterion, requiring e.g. that the name of the searched objects contains the string "bscw", or be a search expression itself, which is where the nesting of search expressions comes from. A simple search criterion can also be negated, requiring, for example, that the name of the searched objects does not contain the string "bscw". Search expressions can also be negated - with the exception of the top-level search expression.

Simple search criteria can refer to all metadata of objects and, in the case of documents, to their content. In detail, search criteria can refer to

•      general object attributes like name, description, tags or BSCW object type,

•      Content and specific attributes of documents like file type or Dublin Core attributes,

•      Events that have occurred with an object,

•      special metadata attributes of individual object types such as organization and email address for contacts or tasks for flow folders. User-defined metadata attributes can also be referenced here.

For text fields (name, description, tags, content, etc.) you can also enter multiple search terms and also parts of searched terms. When doing so, keep the following note in mind.

Note: When searching with textual search terms, the following rules apply, using document search by content as an example; the same rules apply to similar cases such as object search by name.     
When entering a single search term, all documents are found whose content contains this search term as part of a word. If several search terms separated by spaces are entered, all documents will be found whose content contains all search terms as parts of words. The order does not matter. If documents are to be found with a specific phrase that also contains spaces, this phrase must be enclosed in quotation marks.     
Non-alphanumeric characters are treated as what they are by default. However, if an indexing service is installed
on your BSCW server, these characters are searched for exactly in phrases, but in simple search terms they are interpreted as separators like the space character (except for . and :).         
There are no wildcard characters for the search.  
Upper and lower case are not distinguished, not even in search phrases.

You can also remove and move the expressions and criteria of your query again. To do this, proceed as follows.

•      You remove a criterion or an expression by clicking the icon on the rightentfernen edge of a criterion or the header of an expression. For the top-level search expression, this operation means that all contained criteria and expressions are removed. Note that this operation cannot be undone.