When you add a condition to a search query, it appears as a "token" in the Search field. To edit an existing condition in the search field, click the token twice to open the dialog box for the condition. To delete a condition, click the token once to select it, then press Delete.

1. Open the application view you want to search.

2. Click View > Search This View.

3. Click the More twistie in the Search in View form.

4. Click one of the following buttons to specify the condition you want to use:

Condition	Description
Date	Focuses your search on documents that were created or modified according to a specific date or time period.
Author	Focuses your search on documents that were created or modified (or not created or modified) by the specified author(s). This condition searches the $UpdatedBy field.
Field	Focuses your search on documents that contain specified text, numbers, or a date in a particular field.
Form	Focuses your search on documents that were created using one of the forms listed. This condition is most useful when searching in a view that contains several different forms.
Multiple words	Focuses your search on documents that contain (or do not contain) specified terms.
Example form	Focuses your search on documents that contain specified values in fields in an example form.

5. Complete the information required for that condition, and then click Add to include the condition in your query.

6. (Optional) Specify other search query options, for example:

• Select Use word variants to find documents that have words with the base word + certain suffixes. For example, a search for "swim" will also find "swims," "swimming," "swimmer," and even "swimmed." It will not find the variation "swam," however, because the base word has changed, or "swimmet," or "swimsed" because such suffixes are not acceptable with that word.
• Select Fuzzy word search to find documents that have matches similar to your search, for example, a search for Califorrnia (spelled incorrectly) would find documents with California (spelled correctly) and a search for user requirement would also find documents with user has a requirement.

8. Click Search.

9. (Optional) you can preserve the search query for future use by clicking Save. Use the Load search button to retrieve and reuse any saved search query.

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See Also

Table of document selection conditions
Creating and managing a full-text index

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