Longbow Adds Full-Text Document Search
- Aug 1, 2012
- 1 min read
Longbow supports full-text searching of case details and case notes, contact info, calendar items and of course most importrantly documents. Using the full-text search feature you can search not only the title of a document but the document text as well. See below for some searching tips and a sample search.
Some additional information on the capabilities of full-text search:
It supports the use of wildcards:
"anvil*"
'"anvil*"' means match any word that starts with anvil. Wildcards may be used at the beginning or end of a string. When passing wildcards each search phrase must be enclosed within double quotes. Failing to do this will likely cause your searches to return no matches.
Full-Text also supports Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT. Here are a couple of examples:
complaint AND northwestern
complaint AND NOT hospital
When searching through extremely long text there is a greater likelihood of matches being found if search terms are near each other in the saved data. A simple AND search matches terms anywhere in the text, but NEAR can be used to instruct the full-text search engine to only match terms when they are close together. Here is an example:
detonate NEAR quickly
'detonate NEAR quickly' means match only rows that contain the words detonate and quickly near each other.
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