Search Query Syntax

Dovetail Seeker uses the excellent Lucene search engine library exposing your indexed data to simple or advanced queries. If you are familiar with the basic search engine query techniques you will feel right at home with querying Dovetail Seeker.

Simple Queries

The following is an example of a simple query:

Case 1234

Dovetail Seeker defaults to make search words exclusive. Only documents having the word Case and 1234 will be returned. This query is exactly the same as:

Case AND 1234

Changing this query to be inclusive, so that documents with Case or 1234 are returned, requires the use of the OR operator.

Case OR 1234

Note: The OR operator is case sensitive and needs to be capitalized.

Advanced Queries

For a detailed account of the capabilities of the Seeker's query syntax please refer to the Lucene documentation on Query Parser Syntax.

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