Full Text Search
Before you can perform a Full Text Search your becubic administrator must create one or more Full Text Engines.
- Click the Full Text Search button (see Left Frame Toolbars) to open the Full Text Search window:
- Select the Full Text Engine(s) you want to use.
If you have multiple Full Text Engines that are defined, they are all selected by default. Use Ctrl+click to deselect one or more without clearing all.
- Use the Query String field to enter the search criteria on the basis of these syntaxes:
- SearchString, where SearchString specifies the string to search for in the default field defined in the Full Text Engine.
- FeatureName:SearchString, where FeatureName specifies an object attribute and SeachString specifies a string to search for in the specified object attribute.
- condition1
andcondition2 to specify conditions to obtain the intersection of the results. - condition1
orcondition2 to specify conditions to obtain the union of the results. - It is case insensitive.
- It uses whole word mode.
- It supports these wildcards:
- The asterisk character (*), which stands for multiple characters.
- The question mark (?), which stands for a single character.
- Optional. Change the value in the Maximum Number of Results field. If you want to retrieve all the objects in the result, set this parameter to
0. - Optional. Select the layout to use from the Layout for results drop-down list.
where:
Full Text Search has these characteristics:
- Default XRef Layout is selected by default.
- See the ASG-becubic Administrator’s Guide for information about how to add/remove layouts available for Full Text Search.
- Optional. Select the Regular expression check box if your want to use the Java standard expression syntax.
- You cannot combine the Lucene regular expression and the standard Java expression within the query text.
- Using the Java standard expression may slow down the Full Text Search performance.
- Optional. Specify the additional source search options. (You must select a Source Table type layout at step 5 to be able to use this option):
- Select the Source search check box. Additional parameter fields and check boxes display:
- Optional. Clear the Use same query text check box and enter a query text specific to the source search in the Text expression field. See Source Search for information about the source search parameters and options.
- Click OK. The results display in the selected layout with an additional column (Score), which shows the Lucene score:
- Optional. Click Excel Export on the toolbar (see Right Frame Toolbars) to export the results to a CSV file.
The result is sorted decreasingly by Score, then any sorting order defined in the layout is applied.