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Searching for phrases

You can search for a phrase of two or more words by enclosing the words in quotation marks. E.g. searching for "the pink panther" will find only items containing this complete phrase.
Please note that if the default stemming algorithm is active (matching 'swim' with 'swims' or 'swimming'), then this affects the results that are returned. E.g. a phrase search for "Paul swims" would also match with "Paul swimming"

Boolean operators

Grouping

Parentheses can be used to group search clauses into sub-queries. This can be very useful for controlling the boolean logic of a search.
For example: The search red AND pink OR blue is logically ambiguous, whereas the meaning of red AND (pink OR blue) or (red AND pink) OR blue is clear.

Wildcard searches

Wildcards can be used to match against any character or characters that appear somewhere in a word.
Note, however, that neither of the wildcards described below can appear at the beginning of a word - at least the first character of the word must be specified.

Single character wildcard

A question mark (?) can be used in a word to match against any single character.
For instance: p?nk will find "pink" and "punk".

Multiple character wildcard

An asterisk (*) can be used to match any 0 or more characters in a word.
For instance: pin* will match "pin", "pink", "pints", etc. and p*t will match all word beginning in "p" and ending in "t".

Special Keywords

You may use the special keyword isempty in any text search fields to find assets with empty metadata fields.
To find any assets with a non empty text search field use * NOT isempty
To find assets containing data that has not been translated yet use untranslated.