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Search Syntax

Operator Action Example
'term1 term2 ..."
Specifies that words should be adjacent
"President Roosevelt"
+term
Requires a term
"President Roosevelt" +Franklin
-term
Excludes documents containing a term
"President Roosevelt" -Franklin
fieldname:
term
Specifies that the term must be found in that field. See listing of field names in the table below.
title:"Washington"
query1 | query2
Searches the results of query1 with query2, ranking results by relevance to both query1 and query2.
presidential, executive | orders
query1 || query2
Searches the results of query1 with query2, ranking results only by relevance to query2.
presidential, executive || orders

Note: Lowercase terms match any case, otherwise case is matched exactly as typed. 

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