Adobe 38043740 - ColdFusion Standard - Mac Development Manual page 517

DEVELOPING COLDFUSION 9 APPLICATIONS
Accessing and Using Data
To search a document field, type the name of the field, a colon (:), and the search term with no spaces.
field:term
If you enter a minus sign (–) immediately preceding field, documents that contain the specified term are excluded from
the search results. For example, if you enter
field are excluded from the results of the search.
If you enter a plus sign (+) immediately proceeding the field search specification, such as +
are included in the search results only if the search term is present in the specified field.
Field searches are enabled by the
be set to 1 to allow searching a document field.
Important: The
enableField
Query syntax
The query syntax is like the syntax that users expect to use on the web. Queries are interpreted according to the
following rules:
• Individual search terms are separated by whitespace characters, such as a space, tab, or comma, for example:
cake recipes
• Search phrases are entered within double-quotation marks, for example:
"chocolate cake" recipe
• Exclude terms with the negation operator, minus ( - ), or the NOT operator, for example:
cake recipes -rum
cake recipes NOT rum
• Require a compulsory term with the unary inclusion operator, plus sign (+); in this example, the term chocolate
must be included:
cake recipes +chocolate
• Require compulsory terms with the binary inclusion operator AND; in this example, the terms recipes and chocolate
must be included:
cake recipes and chocolate
Field searches
You can search fields or zones by specifying
is the name of the field or zone
name
is an individual search term or phrase
term
For example:
bakery city:"San Francisco"
bakery city:Sunnyvale
For more information, see "Refining your searches with zones and
, documents that contain the specified term in the specified
-field:term
parameter in a template file. This parameter, set to 0 by default, must
enableField
parameter is the only thing in a template file to be modified.
, where:
name: term
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