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The full-text field searchs the given value in title, description, authors and keywords of the documents.

By default it search for content that contains any of the given values.

Example

This search look for documents with 'germany' or '2002'

germany 2002

Use double quotes to search for content that contains exactly a phrase.

Example

This search look for documents that contain exactly 'germany 2002'

"germany 2002"

Use OR operador to search for content that contains one of the given terms.

Example

To search for content that contains 'germany' or '2002', use the operator OR in capital letters. germany OR 2002

germany OR 2002

Use AND operador to search for content that contains all given terms.

Example

To search for content that contains 'germany' and '2002', use the operator AND in capital letters.

germany AND 2002

Use - or NOT to exclude documents that contains a value.

Example

To search for content that contains 'germany' but NOT '2002', use the operator - or NOT in capital letters.

germany NOT 2002
germany -2002

Wildcard searches

Use wirdcards ? (one character) and *(multiple characters) to substitute a character as a stand in for any word or letter in a search phrase.

Examples

To search for '2030' or '2010' you can use a question mark as a wildcard:

20?0

To search for 'german' or 'germany' you can use an asterisk as a wildcard:

german*

You can use wildcards anywhere within a word, even at the very beginning:

*rmany

You can also combine search characters to get the exact word. For example the search term below will return 'germany' but not 'german':

ge*man?

Use a tilde character to find words spelled similarly.

To search for traffic, if unsure about spelling:

trafic~

Search over specific fields

Add "field:" before the search term to only search this field.

To search for specific author:

author:Tolkin

Navigation

menu

The navigation menu shows all the properties in groups. For each menu item it is shown the number of documents with this property for the current selection. If it is 0, this item is deactivate".

Actions

Select and deselect an item

When you click in a text of one item, it will used for filtering the documents. By clicking in you deselected it for searching.

"Hide in Graph" and "Show in Graph"

By clicking the buttons "Hide in Graph" and "Show in Graph" you can select which subelements of the main items will be removed or added for the Data Exploration.

"Show Group" and "Hide Group"

By clicking the buttons "Show Group" and "Hide Group" you can select which sublements of a group will be removed or added for the Data Exploration.

Interactions

Mouse over an item

If you move the mouse pointer over an active item, this node and all its related nodes will be highlighted in the Data Exploration. In the Results list, all the documents with this attribute will be highlighted.

An Information message is shown with the properties of this element.

Data Exploration

[Nodes] [Edges]

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The Data Exploration Graph represents the metadata of the current documents and the relations between them.

Nodes

Each node represents a mentadata. Its size and the number of documents with this metadata are directly proportional.

Select an item

When you click in one item, it will used for filtering the documents. By clicking in image::x.png[] on the Navigation or Current selection you remove it from the query string.

Mouse over

If the mouse is over one node, all the nodes without a directly relation with it will be lowlighted. In the Results list, all the documents with this attribute will be highlighted. In the Navigation, this attribute is also highlighted.

An Information message is shown with the properties of this element.

Edges

Each edge represents a relation between two mentadatas. Its width is directly proportional with the numbers of documents that have both attributes and its length is inversely proportional.

Select an edge

When you click in one edge, its both nodes will used for filtering the current documents.

Mouse over

If the mouse is over one edge, all the nodes without a directly relation with its extremes will be lowlighted. In the Results list, all the documents with both attributes will be highlighted. In the Navigation, these attributes are also highlighted.

An Information message is shown with the properties of this edge.

Results

results

Sorting

By selecting one of the options of the field "Sort by" you can select how to sort the results list of the current documents.

  • A-Z Title: list in alphabetical order

  • Z-A Title: list in reverse alphabetical order

  • Relevante: from highest score to lowest score

  • Actuality: Modified Date Newest to Oldest

Results counter

When the list of documents changes, the counter is updated.

More information

For each document there is a link "More information" to open a popup window with all its available information.

Text highlighting

If a Full-Text search is activated, these strings in all the titles and descriptions are highlighted.

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Interactions

Mouse over

When the mouse moves over a document, all the nodes without a directly relation with document will be lowlighted. In the Navigation, all its attributes are also highlighted.

Current selection

current

In the current selection the user can deactivate all the current filters and searched strings. By clicking element it will removed from the query string.