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You can use the Advanced Search to narrow down your search results and to make it more specific. For e.g. Lets say you want to view all documents created by John on December 10 2007. By using the query below you will get all the documents created by John on December 10 2007...

User Equals to John

Added On 12/10/2007

To Search a document using Advanced Search:

1.	In Sohodox, select Workspace > All Documents in the Navigation pane. The documents will be displayed in the List View pane.

2.	Click the Double Arrow button to bring up the Advanced Search pane.

3.	Select a column name (indexing field) from the Field Name drop down, to search in a particular column (indexing field).

4.	Select the appropriate comparison operator (i.e. contains, begins with, equal to etc.) from the Comparison drop down. For e.g. To search for field values beginning with specific alphabets use the "begins with" operator in your query condition. The following Comparison Operators are available

Comparison Operator	Description	Example
Equal To	Use this operator to exactly match the value you are looking for	Document Name "equal to" AcmeInvoice
Not Equal To	Use this operator when you do not want the value to match the text you are looking for	Document Name "not equal to" AcmeInvoice
Less Than	Use this operator to find values that are less than the value you are looking for	Invoice Amount "less than" 1000
Greater Than	Use this operator to find values that are greater than the value you are looking for	Invoice Amount "greater than" 1000
Less Than equal than	Use this operator to find values that are less than and equal to the value you are looking for	Invoice Amount "less than equal to" 1000
Greater Than	Use this operator to find values that are greater than and equal to the value you are looking for	Invoice Amount "greater than equal to" 1000
Begins With	Use this operator to find values that begins with the text that you are looking for.	Document Name "begins with" Acme
Ends With	Use this operator to find values that ends with the text that you are looking for.	Document Name "ends with" Invoice
Contains	Use this operator to find values that contains the text that you are looking for.	Document Name "contains" Acme
Does Not Begin With	Use this operator to find values that does not begin with the text that you are looking for.	Document Name "does not begin with" Acme
Does Not End With	Use this operator to find values that does not end with the text that you are looking for.	Document Name "does not end with" Invoice
Does Not Contain	Use this operator to find values that does not contain the text that you are looking for.	Document Name "does not contain" Acme
Is Empty	Use this operator to match empty values.	Invoice Date "Is Empty"
Is Not Empty	Use this operator to match non-empty values.	Invoice Date "Is Not Empty"

5.	Enter the value which will be used for the comparison in the Compare To box.

6.	You can add more criteria to your search by clicking this button. To remove a criteria click this button.

7.	To get a result which matches all the criteria's specified by you, select the Match all conditions option from the Conditions drop down. To get a result which matches any criteria, select the Match any conditions option from the Conditions drop down

8.	Click the Search button to begin the search.

9.	The search results will be displayed in the List View pane.

•	Search from the advanced search is only possible for columns that you can see in the grid below it. To search for a document for which you know the document type, you will need to go that Document Type and then search in the fields of the same.

•	To see all your documents again, click the Clear button .

•	To view the saved queries click the Saved Searches > Custom Search node in Workspace.