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Zone and Field Searches

Instead of searching an entire document, you can limit your search to specific zones or fields in a document.

Searching Zones

Zones are specific regions of documents that can be searched. The zones that are available for searching depend on the types of documents in the collection and the configuration of the system. Zones are available in Markup Language documents (such as HTML and SGML) and Internet Message Format documents (such as standard email and Usenet newsgroup messages.

To search a document zone, type the name of the zone, a colon (:), and the search terms.

Examples of Zone Searches

Search Term Finds Pages That Contain
h1:Mississippi The word Mississippi in the <H1> tag of an HTML document
+title:"Betsy Lang" photography The phrase Betsy Lang in the title and possibly the word photography

Searching Fields

Fields are external attributes of documents, defined and enabled by an administrator. If the administrator has enabled attribute searching, you may also use the zone search syntax to search external attributes of documents such as author or description. The availability of attribute searching depends on the configuration of the Verity system.


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