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Alfresco Search Services

Platform
Alfresco
Product
Alfresco Search Services
Release
2.0
License

Search specific fields rather than the default. Terms, phrases, etc. can all be preceded by a field. If not the default field TEXT is used.

field:term
field:"phrase"
=field:exact
~field:expand

Fields fall into three types: property fields, special fields, and fields for data types.

Property fields evaluate the search term against a particular property, special fields are described in the following table, and data type fields evaluate the search term against all properties of the given type.

Type Description
Property Fully qualified property, for example {http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}name:apple
Property Fully qualified property, for example @{http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}name:apple
Property CMIS style property, for example cm_name:apple.
Property Prefix style property, for example cm:name:apple.
Property Prefix style property, for example @cm:name:apple.
Property TEXT, for example TEXT:apple.
Special ID, for example ID:"NodeRef"
Special ISROOT, for example ISROOT:T
Special TX, for example TX:"TX"
Special PARENT, for example PARENT:"NodeRef"
Special PRIMARYPARENT, for example PRIMARYPARENT:"NodeRef".
Special QNAME, for example QNAME:"app:company_home".
Special CLASS, for example CLASS:"qname".
Special EXACTCLASS, for example EXACTCLASS:"qname".
Special TYPE, for example TYPE:"qname".
Special EXACTTYPE, for example EXACTTYPE:"qname".
Special ASPECT for example ASPECT:"qname".
Special EXACTASPECT, for example EXACTASPECT:"qname".
Special ISUNSET for example ISUNSET:"property-qname".
Special ISNULL, for example ISNULL:"property-qname".
Special ISNOTNULL, for example ISNOTNULL:"property-qname".
Special EXISTS for example EXISTS:"name of the property".
Special SITE for example SITE:"shortname of the site".
Special TAG. TAG: “name of the tag” Note: TAG must be in upper case.
Fully qualified data type Data Type, http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0}content:apple.
prefixed data type Data Type, d:content:apple