A federated search lets you simultaneously search for data across multiple searchable repositories. You can easily make a single query on both mailbox items and archived items, and find data quickly, navigating from thousands of search results to a handful.
Federated search supports multiple formats and search results are in its original formats, such as Word docs, PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, and file shares in a consolidated view, which identifies the knowledge type. Approximately 600 file types are supported.
When entering criteria, you can use symbols and Boolean operators—see Search Operators.
You can also perform a search for attachments using advanced search tools—see Advanced Federated Search.
Parameter |
Description |
Subject/Filename matches |
Lets you search for specific names or email addresses in the Subject field of an email message. The three match options lets you decide how precise or general your search results will be. In general, the Word Root Match option provides the widest pool of results and the Phrase Match option preserves word sequence. These two options are most useful for finding variations of words. The Exact Match option provides the most precise results. |
Word Root Match |
This option returns the widest pool of results. IPRO searches data indexed without punctuation or stop words and looks for different forms of all the words you search. A root word does not have a prefix in front of the word or a suffix at the end of the word. It is the primary lexical unit of a word and of a word family. It contains the most significant aspect of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller components. This type of search is not case sensitive, which means it does not matter if you use uppercase or lowercase letters. Word Root Match is useful when you do not know exactly what you are searching for but you know the words involved. In the following example, two root words are used in the search: employ and contract.
See About Natural Language Processing and About Natural Language Processing. |
Phrase Match |
This option preserves the sequence of words in a search and is not case sensitive. It is useful when you have a clear idea of the results you are looking for, yet still want to see possible word forms. There may be stop words between the search words.
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Exact Match |
This option delivers search results that are exactly what you type in a search field. IPRO Search performs a literal search on indexed string fields and is case sensitive. IMPORTANT
Do not use quotation marks around search words unless what you are searching for is in quotation marks.
You can use a search operator such as a wild card to expand the search.
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Date range |
Lets you search for files within a specified date range. |
Relative / Absolute Date |
Relative Date: Lets you set dates that fall within relative date ranges. A relative date range is a period of time that is relative to the current date. Relative date ranges include: Now, Start of Day, End of Day, Start of Week, and End of Week. Using relative date ranges allows you to run searches periodically without needing to alter your query. Absolute Date: Lets you set the exact dates on which to start and end the audit. |
Sender/Owner matches |
Lets you search for files with a sender or owner that matches one or more specific words. |
Size range |
Lets you search for files within a specified size range. File sizes must be entered in bytes. |
Contains |
Lets you search for files with a specific word found within the body. |
Phrase Match |
This option preserves the sequence of words in a search and is not case sensitive. It is useful when you have a clear idea of the results you are looking for, yet still want to see possible word forms. There may be stop words between the search words.
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Regex matches |
IPRO Search supports some regex (regular expression) or pattern matching. You use the forward slash symbol (/) to initiate it. For a larger string, you must also end with it. The following example would find four digits in a row, or two letters and two digits. There is a limit of four such variables in a row.
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Document ID |
Copy-paste or enter a singular or multiple Document IDs to search the specific items. |
Automatically escape reserved index characters (SOLR) |
Certain characters and words are reserved for indexing. By default, this option is selected so you can search for the following: \ + - && || ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ AND OR NOT |