SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise InfoView User's Guide

Search techniques

Technique	Example	Description
Separating search terms with spaces	finance report	Search results will be produced only when all the words are found in the document. Note: Separating search terms with a space implies an AND separation.
Enclosing search input in quotations	“total sales growth”	Search results will be produced only when the exact phrase is found in a document.
Preceding search terms with a +	episode +I	Search results will be produced only when all the words are found in the document. This technique is useful to search for words that are typically filtered out during search process. For example; a, for, by, is, the.
Preceding search terms with a -	Europe sales -revenue	Search results will be produced only if the word immediately after the - sign is NOT found, and all other words are found.
Separating search terms with a capitalized OR	bug OR defect count report	Search results will be produced if any of the words used with OR are found in the document.
Combining different search techniques	marketing OR sales -finance “increase OR decrease trend”	This example will produce results if a document contains the word marketing or the word sales, and contains the phrase increase or decrease trend, but does not contain the word finance.