Restrict like Google?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Does your software allow the equivelent of this Google search query:

advantage site:msn.com/EMEA_case_studies filetype:pdf

So that it:

a) searches for "advantage"
b) restricts the results by URL (msn.com/EMEA_case_studies)
c) only returns PDF files

I know you could do something like this with the categories functionality, but I do not want this option to be fixed, and in the drop down box. It should be flexible.

[Ray]

You can search a filename (or file type) conditionally by using wildcards. For example, "*.pdf" would return all PDF files. "reports_*.doc" would return all DOC files beginning with "reports_". To do this, you will need to have "Filename" enabled in the "Indexing Options" of the configuration window.

So a search for "advantage *.pdf" with "match all search words" selected, and a category option that limits to the URL of "msn.com/EMEA_case_studies", would perform the equivalent search in Zoom.

But as you said, the categories option only provides search conditions via a drop-down box and these conditions would have to be pre-determined. However, we have been considering dynamic search conditions (like the Google style) as a Version 5.0 feature, and it may be introduced then, depending on user demand.