Search, Search 25 – FOCUS Enhancements MANL-1161-04 User Manual

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MA Series Media Archive Servers

25

MA Series Operations

Search

The

Search

menu bar provides five categories of search criteria.

In general, the search procedure involves:

1.

Selecting a search category:

General Search

,

Date

,

Discs

,

Tags

, or

Bins

.

2.

Filling the search parameters.

3.

Clicking on

Go

to start the search.

MA Server Search Engine
The MA server employs the Apache Lucene search engine. The MA server supports:

• Single and multiple character wildcard searches.
• Boolean logical operators AND, OR, and NOT.

These operators must be entered in ALL CAPS.

• Phrases delimited by quotation marks.
• Escaping the special characters that are part of the query syntax.

These special characters are + - && || ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \ .

Metadata Tag

Start Search

Bins

Discs

Search Criteria

Area

Date

General

Search

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