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Zone and Field Searches

Instead of searching an entire document, you can limit your search to specific zones in a document.

Searching Zones

Zones are specific regions of documents that can be searched. The zones that are available for searching depend on the types of documents in the collection and the configuration of the system. Zones are available in Markup Language documents (such as HTML and SGML) and Internet Message Format documents (such as standard email and Usenet newsgroup messages.

To search a document zone, type the name of the zone, a colon (:), and the search terms.

Examples of Zone Searches

Search Term Finds Pages That Contain
h1:Mississippi The word Mississippi in the <H1> tag of an HTML document
+title:"Betsy Lang" photography The phrase Betsy Lang in the title and possibly the word photography

Searching Fields

Fields contain document metadata and are stored in the document collection. The fields that are available for searching depend on the types of documents in the collection.

To search a document field, type the name of the field, a colon (:), and the search terms.

 

NOTE: Field searches are enabled by an entry in a configuration file located in /verity/common/english. For Information Server V5.0, the file is named vdk30.qp. For Information Server V3.7, the file is named vdk20.qp. This configuration file must be present and it must contain this modifier in order for field searching to perform properly:

/config="enableField=YES"

If the /config modifier does not appear in the configuration file as shown above, you must add this entry. If the modifier is not present, field searches return no documents.

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