Metadata Search - Find all Word Documents with Specific Author

[tmurray1]

Hello.  Does Clearwell Advanced Search have the ability to search a documents metadata?  More specifically, search entire corpus where document type is Word and author is "First, Last" or "Last, First".  Searching for a document type is straight forward but searching for a document author is not obvious. 

Thank you.

[Daly · Accepted solution]

Hello tmurray1,

Under advanced search, you could try the 'freeform' radio button.

Under the queries heading and in the textbox '... and apply this file query:', try:

u_NEAMetadata:"Fname, Sname"

That will search the file metadata for "Fname, Sname", I can't see anyway to specify solely the author but this will let you work with the metadata on the file.

For more information on freeform searches, take a look at this: HOWTO95659

[tmurray1]

Hi Daly Whyte.  This is exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you!