Searching the Index

Sifaka contains a search engine, and supports typical text search capabilities.

Example 1 - Performing a Search

1. Select an index from the Indexes pane.

2. Select the Search tab in the right content tab pane.

3. Enter the query, for example: interest rates.

4. Click on the first link to open the document.

   

5. Query terms (e.g., interest rates) are highlighted automatically. To find any term in the document, for example "Japan", enter it in the top right text field and press "Find". All occurrences of the term in the document are highlighted.

   

6. If the query matches many documents, they will appear on multiple search results pages. Continue to any page of results by clicking the page number or the left or right arrows at the bottom of the Search tab.

   

Example 2 - Performing a Phrase Search

1. Phrase queries are indicated by words in double quote marks, for example "interest rates". Phrase queries only match document terms that occur in the same order and near each other.

2. Click on the first link to open the document.

3. The whole phrase (e.g., interest rates) is highlighted automatically.

Query Guidelines

• Queries can be single or multiple words.

• Use double quote marks around multiple word queries for phrase queries.

• You can search any field by typing the field name followed by a colon ":" and then the term you are looking for. For example:
  
  headline:Japan body:"interest rates"
  

• To do a proximity search use the tilde, "~", symbol at the end of a Phrase. For example to search for a "Japan" and "rates" within 10 words of each other in a document use the search:
  
  "Japan rates"~10
  

• The AND operator matches documents where both terms exist anywhere in the text of a single document. For example:
  
  Japan AND "interest rates"
  

• The NOT operator excludes documents that contain the term after NOT. For example:
  
  Japan NOT "interest rates"
  

• Check out even more query options here: Query Parser Syntax.