Search
General
Fuzzy Search
- Use fuzzy search: Returns all words or phrases similar to the word or phrase typed. This setting only applies to indexed searches.
- Percentage of word: Define the percentage of the word that can differ from the search criteria and still be considered a search result.
- Number of letters: Specify the maximum number of letters that a word can differ from the specified criteria and still be considered a search result.
Note: Increasing fuzziness can slow performance and result in irrelevant search results. If these problems occur while fuzzy search is turned on, reduce the breadth of your fuzzy search.
Search Options
- Find partial matches when performing a basic search or quick search: Returns partial matches for a search term when searching by entry name, field, or annotation text using the Basic or Quick Search. If you search for "February," the search engine will return results matching *February* (meaning that text may come before or after the searched term, i.e. "10 February" or "February 22, 2016").
Note: The Find partial matches when performing a basic search option does not return partial matches for indexed searches. To return partial matches when searching a document's text, use an indexed search type and configure fuzzy search.
- Include variants of root words in text searches: Returns words that are variants of your search term. (This option is also sometimes called "search stemming.") For instance, if you select this option and then search for the word "swim," the search results will also include the words "swam" and "swimming." This only applies to indexed searches.
- Show Records Management options: This option determines whether or not the Records Management Search options will be displayed in the Search Pane.
- Case/Accent Sensitive Search: Controls whether searches will be case sensitive or accent sensitive. Select the combination of case and accent sensitivity you want to use. By default, this will match the case and accent sensitivity setting in the Laserfiche Administration Console (learn more). This only applies to nonindexed searches.
Results Display
You can determine how each occurrence of a word or phrase will be highlighted when you open a search result for a text search. It also configures if a line of context will be displayed after performing a text search and if the search will return the latest version only.
- Highlight: Individual occurrences of search criteria will be highlighted on the image and text pages of documents opened from the search results window. These options determine the color used to highlight each occurrence.
- Text: The highlight colors for search hits on the Text Pane of the document viewer.
- Image: The highlight colors for search hits on the Image Pane of the document viewer.
- Search Display
- Resolve shortcuts (may slow search performance): Whether shortcuts will inherit the traits of their parent documents for search purposes. For example, if you select this option and perform a search for documents containing the word "Agenda" that are in the "MyDocument" folder, the text search will also be performed on documents that have shortcuts in the "MyDocuments" folder. This option is most commonly used in conjunction with folder tunneling.
Note: Resolve shortcuts can significantly slow search performance, because a larger section of the repository must be searched. Only select this option if it is necessary for the way you handle shortcuts in your repository.
- Return only the latest document in the link group: Whether the search will return only the latest member of a link group, hiding any earlier link group member.
- Show context lines: Whether the context for each search hit is displayed in the bottom pane of the Search Results window.
- Characters per line: The number of characters that should be displayed in the context line.
- Limit text searches to: Whether to display only a certain number of indexed search results.
- Maximum results: The maximum number of indexed search results to display.
Note: Limiting indexed searches can greatly improve search performance because it limits the number of results that need to be loaded. When limited, only the most relevant results will be returned.
- Resolve shortcuts (may slow search performance): Whether shortcuts will inherit the traits of their parent documents for search purposes. For example, if you select this option and perform a search for documents containing the word "Agenda" that are in the "MyDocument" folder, the text search will also be performed on documents that have shortcuts in the "MyDocuments" folder. This option is most commonly used in conjunction with folder tunneling.
Columns
You can configure what columns are shown in the search results pane.
Note: If you searched by template, a column for each field in the template will automatically be displayed in the Contents Pane for that search only.
The layout of the Contents Pane is altered when you perform a text or annotation text search. These searches will split the Contents Pane in half: The top half will display the name of each document in which the specified word or phrase occurs, with an additional column displaying the number of occurrences for each document; the bottom half will show the context and page number of the search term, in order of appearance in the document.