contentWEB documentation – version 3.5

7.1.Search query language

The search query language is a computer language used to retrieve documents from the database regarding the specified properties. The search query language used in any user interface of contentACCESS can be divided into following categories:

Source specification
The searching user can specify where to search on different levels: tenant, model, entity
Tenant:(string) – select a tenant by name; search in tenants having the specified string in name
MTID:(string) – select a model by type identifier (EmailArchive, FileSystemArchive, SharePointArchive)
Source:(string) – select a model by keyword; search in models having the specified string as a keyword (email, file, sharepoint). This is similar as the MTID mentioned, but accepts more free model specification. Possible values are:

  • For FileSystemArchive: file, fs, filesystem, archive
  • For EmailArchive: archive, email, mail, mailarchive, emailarchive

Examples:

  • source:file
  • source:mail

Entity:(string) – select one or more entities by name; search in entities having the specified string in name. Entity name is mailbox address in Email archive and Root folder path in File system archive.
Examples:

  • entity:abal@tech-arrow.com – search in ABAL’s mailbox
  • entity:c:\temp – search in c:\temp folder

Property value specification
The following properties can be used to specify conditions on documents to be returned as result when searching the archive:

Date
Applicable only for properties of “date” type. Exact date specification has to be in format YYYY-MM-DD (no hours, minutes, seconds can be specified).
Example:

  • date:(2016-12-05)

Available placeholders: now – means this hour; today, yesterday, this week, last week, this month, last month, this year, last year
Example:

  • date:(now), date:(last week)

Number
Numbers are written as usually (1, 2, 3…). For the size conditions also units can be specified:
K | KB – size in kilobytes
M | MB – size in megabytes
G | GB – size in gigabytes
T | TB – size in terabytes

Example:

  • size:(>1K) – files or emails (depending on the archive) larger than 1 KB

Range
Two types of ranges can be specified: numerical and date ranges. Ranges can be upper bound, lower bound or an interval. A range can be specified as a value for all properties of type “date” and “number”.
Prop:(>value) – the value of property “Prop” is greater than “value”
Prop:(< value) – the value of property “Prop” is less than “value”
Prop:(value1, value2) – the value of property “Prop” is greater than “value1” and less than “value2”
Examples:

  • size:(1K, 1M) – files/emails (depending on the archive) larger than 1KB and smaller than 1MB
  • date:(2016-10, 2016-12) – files created/modified or emails sent (depending on the archive) in the last quarter of 2016

Filename
Finds items by attachment name (Email archive) or file name (File archive). Wildcard characters can be used for filename pattern specification (* or ?). They have the same meaning as when searching for files in Windows.
Filename:(*.txt) – this will find all attachments and files having the extension .txt
Filename:(file) – this will find attachments and files having the exact name “file”
Filename:(file.*) – this will find attachments and files named “file” of any type (extension)

Properties in different archives
When specifying a boolean value for a property in query, the following notations can be used:

  • true | yes | y stand for True
  • false | no | n stand for False

Property names and values are not case sensitive. Wildcard characters (* and ?) can be used everywhere.

The character ‘|’ means an option or alternative (in cases if multiple property names and values can be used).

If the value is specified in quotes (e.g. “value”), it is considered as a phrase.
Example:

  • “brown fox” will find all documents that contains the words “brown” followed by word “fox”

Email properties
The properties below are applicable when searching in Email archive

Property Specificity Description
HasAttachment: true | false if true, finds emails having one or more attachments; if false, finds emails having no attachments
Importance: Low | Normal | High finds emails with the specified importance level
Sensitivity: Normal | Personal | Private | Confidential finds emails with the specified sensitivity level
Flag: true | false find emails having a flag set (true) or not set (false)
AttachmentCount: (number) finds emails with the specified attachment count
Bcc: (string) condition on addresses in BCC tag of the email
Category: (string) condition on category
Cc: (string) condition on addresses in CC tag of the email
Folder: (string) condition on folder path; possible to find emails only in the specified folder (backslash is used as path separator, e.g. Inbox\Important)
ReceivedDate: (date) condition on receiving date
RetentionTime: (number) condition on retention time (in months)
Sender | From: (string) condition on email sender
Date | SentDate: (date) condition on email’s sent date
Size: (number) condition on email’s size in bytes
Title | Subject: (string) condition on email subject
To: (string) condition on email’s recipient
Body: (string) search in the mail’s body text
Attachment: (string) search in mail’s attachment text

File properties
The properties below are applicable when searching in File archive

Property Specificity Description
CreationDate: (date) condition on file’s creation date
Title | Filename: (string) condition on file’s name
Folder: (string) condition on file’s path (\ is the path separator as in Windows, e.g. c:\documents\rfa)
Date | ModifiedDate: (date) condition on file’s creation date
Size: (number) condition on file’s size in bytes

SharePoint document properties
The properties below are applicable when searching in SharePoint archive

Property Specificity Description
CreatedBy: (string) condition on user who created the file
CreationDate: (date) condition on creation date
FileSize: (number) condition on file size
Date | ModificationDate: (date) condition on modification date
ModifiedBy: (string) condition on user who modified the document
Name: (string) condition on document name
Title: (string) condition on document title
VersionNum: (number) condition on document’s version number

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