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Searching within a previous search After a search, click Search > Search within these results to do another search of just the documents retrieved in your previous search. button to browse the thesaurus.Ĭlick the Search History button to see a list of your most recent search requests. button to see how dtSearch will search for words using fuzzy searching, phonic searching, stemming, or synonym expansion.Ĭlick the Thesaurus. button to see a list of the searchable fields in the selected indexes.Ĭlick the Browse Words. If you have selected more than one index to be searched, you can pick the index listed in the word list from the drop-down list on top of the word list.Ĭlick the fields. As you type in a search request, the list will scroll to the word you are typing.
Next to each word is a number, which is the number of times the word occurs in the index. Search ToolsĪt the top of the search dialog box is a scrolling list of the words in the index you have selected. Sorting by hits uses a simple count of the number of hits in each document (with no automatic term weighting) to rank retrieved files.Īfter the search is over, you can re-sort the results by clicking the column headers in the search results list. Select date sorting to get the most recent documents that match your search request, rather than the most relevant. Weighting of retrieved documents takes into account: the number of documents each word in your search request appears in (the more documents a word appears in, the less useful it is in distinguishing relevant from irrelevant documents) the number of times each word in the request appears in the documents and the density of hits in each document. Sorting Optionsīy default, dtSearch sorts retrieved documents by their relevance to your search request. dtSearch provides three ways to perform synonym searching:Ĭheck Synonyms to find synonyms using the WordNet concept network included with dtSearch.Ĭheck Related words to find related words from the WordNet concept network.Ĭheck User synonyms to find synonyms that you have defined in your own thesaurus.Ĥ. Synonym searching tells dtSearch to use a thesaurus to find synonyms of words in your search request. Fuzzy searching sifts through scanning and typographical errors. Phonic searching finds words that sound similar to words in your request, like Smith and Smythe.
For example, with stemming enabled a search for apply would also find applies. Stemming searches other grammatical forms of the words in your search request. Select the search features to use in your search. Enter a search request in the space provided.ģ. Use quotation marks to indicate a phrase, + (plus) to indicate a word that must be present, and - (minus) to indicate a word that must not be present.Īn " all words"search is like an "any words" search except that all of the words in the search request must be present for a document to be retrieved.Ģ. In a natural language search request, words such as AND and OR are disregarded.
Next, tell dtSearch what you want to findĪ boolean search request consists of a group of words, phrases or macros linked by search connectors such as AND and OR to precisely indicate the relationship between them.Īn " any words" search request consists of an unstructured natural language or "plain English" query. More Options also provides a way to limit the number of files retrieved to the most relevant. To limit your search by filename, date, or size, click the More Options button and then enter the criteria for your search. button to select the folders to search.ģ. Under Unindexed search options, select whether you want to combine the unindexed search with an index search. To search without an index, click the More Options tab. Under Indexes to search, click on the name of each index you want to search.Ģ. First, tell dtSearch where you want to searchġ.