Understanding Advanced Search Operators

UNDERSTANDING ADVANCED SEARCH OPERATORS The following operators may be used in the Full Text Search box within iManage SEARCH OPERATOR DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE NOT The NOT modifier is used with the AND and To find documents that contain OR operators, to exclude documents that the words mushrooms and olives contain a given term. but not the word anchovies, enter: Note: in order for the NOT modifier to work, mushrooms AND olives AND NOT you must first enter a positive search anchovies criteria. ~ Adding a tilde before a search term returns To find documents that contain results which match the case of the search the word President, enter: term. ~President Occurrences of president or PRESIDENT would be ignored. EOR XOR Only one of the terms is permitted to To find documents that either appear in the document. If both terms contain cat or dog enter one of appear in the document, it is not returned the following: in the search results. cat EOR dog cat XOR dog Documents which contain both cat and dog are not returned NEARn Only returns documents in which the To find documents with the words second term is within n words of the first red and green within seven words term – that is, the terms are n or fewer of each other, enter: words apart. If you do not specify n, it red NEAR7 green defaults to 5. DNEARn Only returns documents in which the To find documents in which the second term is within n words of the first term green follows the term red, term, in the specified order. If you do not and is no more than 2 words away specify n, it defaults to 5. from the term red, enter: red DNEAR2 green WNEARn Weighted NEAR. The WNEAR operator In this query, extra relevance is promotes relevance when terms are less given to documents in which the than the specified n words distance from terms dog and cat appear 7 or each other. The closer together the words fewer words apart: are in the document, the higher the dog WNEAR7 cat relevance of the document. If you do not specify n, it defaults to 5. Documents in which the terms do not occur within n words of each other are returned with normal relevance.