Saved Searches

There are a few ways to set up and run a saved search in the Laserfiche app.

Set up and save the search in the Laserfiche app

You can open the search pane, set up a search, and save it for later use.

  1. Press the search button in the top right corner.
  2. Set up the search criteria, then press the Save Search button.
  3. Select if you want to save the search criteria as a new search or replace an existing search.
  4. Type the name of the saved search, then press OK.
  5. A list of saved repository and Map searches within Laserfiche will be displayed under Saved Searches. Press the saved search to run it.

    Saved Searches

Run a search that has been previously saved in the web client

You can access and run saved searches that were saved in the web client.

  1. Press the search button in the top right corner.
  2. A list of searches saved within Laserfiche will be displayed under Saved Searches. Press the saved search to run it.
  3. To view a document or folder returned from a search, press it.

Note: Searches saved in the web client cannot be deleted from the Laserfiche app.

Create an HTML file with search parameters

You can create an HTML file with embedded search parameters, place it in the repository, and open the file to run the search.

  1. Create a new text document and open it.
  2. Paste the following text into the document:

    3. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C-//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”>
    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Saved Search</title>
    <meta http-equiv=”REFRESH” content=”0;url=lfmobile://servername/mobile/index.aspx?db=repositoryname#search=searchterms;view=search,imageenable=true”></HEAD>
    <BODY>
    Searching...
    </BODY>
    </HTML>

  3. Replace servername with the name of your server, repositoryname with the name of your repository, and searchterms with the search syntax of the search you want to run.
    • To easily find the search syntax for your search, run the search in the web client, and then click ClosedShow search syntax at the bottom of the search dialog.

      Advanced Search Syntax
    • Make sure you adjust the search syntax to be compatible with URLs. For example, {LF:modified=”9-4-2012″} has several characters, like braces, that are not always compatible with URLs. Correctly encoded, the search syntax looks like this: %7BLF:modified=%229-4-2012%22%7D.
  4. Save the document as an HTML file.
  5. Import the document to your repository. When the document is opened, the search will run.