04-21-2014 01:21 PM
I'm looking at a particular search where they are looking for near hits and, amongst the search terms, excluding to or from certain targets. eg. restructur match within 10 characters as well as not to or from T:Joe McSweeney. Also How many wildcards can you use in a single line before the search is considered malformed?
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04-22-2014 07:55 AM
What version of DA\EV?
You might want to peruse this, it has an informative section on wildcards.
Article:HOWTO77131 | | | Created: 2012-06-12 | | | Updated: 2014-02-27 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO77131 |
If you are searching 32 bit indexes you will need at least three character, as noted here:
Article:HOWTO58624 | | | Created: 2011-08-01 | | | Updated: 2013-07-12 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO58624 |
A wildcard search always finds items that match your search criteria and that were archived in Enterprise Vault 10.0 or later. To ensure that the search results also include older matching items that are in your archives, enter at least three other characters before the wildcard. For example, the following search string returns hits for the words "make", "maker", "making", "wonder", "wondering", and so on:
04-21-2014 01:22 PM
Also does to or from include copied?
04-21-2014 02:55 PM
The To field will included CC'd and Bcc'd users.
The downside for you will be the NEAR operation. For DA, the NEAR operator isn't as robust as you needs. The NEAR operator will find items within 50 words of each other.
Searches match items where the words that you specify are within 50 words of each other.
See the following:
Article:HOWTO58784 | | | Created: 2011-08-01 | | | Updated: 2013-07-12 | | |
Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO58784 |
Article:HOWTO58772 | | | Created: 2011-08-01 | | | Updated: 2013-07-12 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO58772 |
04-22-2014 06:32 AM
Thank you for pointing out the operators. However I was not so much looking for words near each other in terms of proximiy but in likeness; similar words rather than having to define the first three and follow it with a wildcard. Which, by the by, can you search for keywords of only one or two characters?
04-22-2014 07:55 AM
What version of DA\EV?
You might want to peruse this, it has an informative section on wildcards.
Article:HOWTO77131 | | | Created: 2012-06-12 | | | Updated: 2014-02-27 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO77131 |
If you are searching 32 bit indexes you will need at least three character, as noted here:
Article:HOWTO58624 | | | Created: 2011-08-01 | | | Updated: 2013-07-12 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO58624 |
A wildcard search always finds items that match your search criteria and that were archived in Enterprise Vault 10.0 or later. To ensure that the search results also include older matching items that are in your archives, enter at least three other characters before the wildcard. For example, the following search string returns hits for the words "make", "maker", "making", "wonder", "wondering", and so on:
04-22-2014 08:15 AM
Tony is correct in that DA requires at least 3 characters in front of a wild card before the wild card usage is valid. This is currently regardless of the EV and DA versions.
The only exception to this rule is in DA 9.0.5 or earlier versions or 10.0.4CHF1 or later where we can simulate a 'near' search by using space delimited wild cards to designate words separating words. For example, to find the word litigation within 2 words of the word action, the criteria would be
litigation action
action litigation
litigation * action
action * litigation
litigation * * action
action * * litigation
The number of asterisk wild cards determines how many words can separate the 'seed' words. Be careful how many iterations you use, though, as the more iterations, the more complex the search critiera become.
Also note that using the asterisk wild card denotes the number of words, not characters, that can separate the 'seed' words. If you want to limit the number of characters, you'd need to use the question mark character (and I've not tested using that wild card in that manner, so I don't know if it works).
04-22-2014 08:58 AM
Hi Ken,
Above did you mean DA 9.0.5 or later?
DA 9.0.5 or earlier versions
Cheers,
04-22-2014 10:06 AM
No, I meant 9.0.5 or earlier (i.e., all of 8.0 and 9.0). There was an issue with the EV 10 64-bit indexing implementation where the decision was made to not support this type of 'near' searching. We had enough customers relying on that type of searching that Engineering reversed their decision and implemented the ability to conduct this type of searching in 10.0.4CHF1 - I think. I can't seem to find the documentation stating when we got this ability back in the EV 10 stream, but I know it's there in at least 10.0.4CHF1, maybe even 10.0.4 (base).
04-22-2014 10:54 AM
Gotcha! Thanks for the explaination.
Cheers,
04-22-2014 11:43 AM
I'm assuming the search string with the * for words needs to be in quotes.
04-28-2014 08:00 AM
Correct. Each search string with the wild cards representing words needs to be surrounded by double quotes. Be sure to enter these through Notepad or directly into the criteria fields so as to not use smart quotes to surround the 'phrase'.