You can search by multiple words, use search operators, or search by exact phrases.
By default, the search does not include search for synonyms and fuzzy search features. To access these features, use specific search operators.
The following table describes operators available both in the help search and in the full-text search in application data. If an operator is unavailable in any of these search types, it is explicitly stated in its description.
| Operator |
Example |
Description |
| SpaceAND& |
entry document entry AND documententry & document |
Find topics containing both "entry" and "document" (any word forms). |
| OR|, |
entry OR document entry | documententry, document |
Find topics containing at least one of the words, either "entry" or "document" (any word forms). |
| NOTNOT |
closing NOT monthclosing NOT month |
Find topics containing "closing", but not "month" (any word forms). |
| /[±]nNEAR/[±]n |
Example 1: sale NEAR/3 product Example 2: sale NEAR/+3 product Example 3: sale NEAR/–3 product |
Find topics that contain the specified words (in any word form), separated by n or less words. The sign determines the relative position of the second word ("+" if the second word comes after the first one, "-" if the second word comes before the first one). If the sign is not specified, the search returns topics that contain both words separated by n or less words, their order does not matter. Example 1 returns topics where "product" comes before or after "sale", separated by 3 words or less. Example 2 returns topics where "product" comes after "sale", separated by 2 words or less. Example 3 returns topics where "product" comes before "sale", separated by 3 words or less. |
| NEAR |
posting NEAR document |
A simplified version of the previous operator. Find topics where both words are present, separated by a maximum of 8 words, their order does not matter. |
| «» |
"document posting" |
Find the exact word sequence, each word can have any word form (equivalent to: document NEAR/+1 posting). |
| () |
(post | create) & (account, document) |
Use to specify the order of operators (the number of nesting levels is not limited). |
| * |
docu* |
A wildcard replacing the end of the word. The search string must contain more than 1 significant character. The search for "docu*" returns "document", "documenting", "documentation", and so on. If the search returns more than 300 entries, you are prompted to refine the search. When searching the help, you can use any number of * characters at any positions. Example: "post*docu*". When using the full-text search, you can use a single * character at the end of the word. Example: the search for "post*" returns "posting" and "posted". |
| ~ |
~System System~2 |
Fuzzy search for words with the specified number of differences from the search string (1 if the number is omitted). "~System" query (equivalent to "System~1") finds "systwm" and "sydtem". "System~2" query finds "syttwm" and "suttem". This operator is supported in the full-text search. It is not supported in the help search. |
| ! |
!red tile |
Find synonyms (supports English, Russian, and Ukrainian). "!" should precede the word whose synonyms you want to find. For example, the search for "!red tile" finds "scarlet tile" and "coral tile" as well. This operator is supported in the full-text search. It is not supported in the help search. |
If the search string does not include any operators (the words are separated by spaces), the spaces are treated as AND operators.
NOTE 1. The following operators must be provided in capital letters: AND, OR, NOT, NEAR.
NOTE 2. Unary operators (operators at the beginning of search strings) are not supported. For example, you cannot find all topics that do not contain the search string.
Note 3. Search string characters that are neither operators, nor letters, nor numbers are ignored. To search for words matching the search operators, enclose them in double quotation marks. Example: "NEAR".