If you enter two or more terms into a Quicksearch field, Cumulus combines these terms with AND. Searching for canto cumulus will result in all records that contain Canto (or belcanto, cantor, cantonese ...)and Cumulus in any of the searched record fields.
To use a term that consists of more than one string, you have to enclose the strings with double quotation marks. Quicksearch handles the strings in quotation marks as one search term. Searching for “canto cumulus” will result in all records that contain canto cumulus, i.e. the strings Canto (or belcanto, but not cantor, cantonese ...) and Cumulus, separated by a blank, in any of the searched record fields.
To combine search terms with OR, you have to separate them with two pipes (||). Searching for canto || cumulus will result in all records containing either canto (belcanto, cantor, cantonese ...), or cumulus, or both, in any of the searched record fields.
To search for records that do not contain certain terms in any of the searched record fields, you have to prepend the terms with a minus symbol (-). Searching for cumulus -cloud will result in all records that contain cumulus, but do not contain cloud, in any of the searched record fields.
To search for one of the special characters you have to put a backslash in front; e.g. \- to find - (the minus symbol), \&& to find &&, \/ to find/ (the slash), and \\ to find \ (the backslash itself).
NOTE: If the Categories field is included in the Record Quicksearch (which is the default), the search results also depend on the settings specified under Category Search Also Finds Records of (Preferences > User Settings > Application > Search & Sort). (See “Search & Sort Tab”, for details.)
Additional Search Options with Index for word-searching activated
Only if an administrator has activated the Index for word-searching option in the properties of a string field or string list field, it is possible to perform a word search in the respective field, that is, to search for a term exactly as it is.
To perform a wordsearch, you must enclose the search term in single quotation marks: Searching for ‘canto’ then will result in all records containing exactly the word canto in any of the searched record fields, but not belcanto, cantor, cantonese, etc.
To perform a word search for a term that consists of two or more strings, you must enclose the strings first in single quotation marks, then in double quotation marks: doble quote - single quote - term1 - blank - term 2 - single quote - double quote.. Searching for ” ‘canto cumulus’ ” will result in all records, that contain precisely the strings canto and cumulus, separated by a blank, in any of the searched record fields.