Friday, April 20, 2012

How to use Boolean Operators in SharePoint / FAST search

The implicipt boolean operator between words in SharePoint or FAST search is AND. For example cancer biomedical will be converted to search query 'cancer AND biomedical'. Also the boolean operator is case-sensitive. Only uppercase operator will work correctly. For example 'cancer and biomedical' will not search for both cancer and biomedical. Only 'Cancer AND biomedical' will search for both cancer and biomedical.
Also the keyword ContentType can be used to search only within items that have the specific content type. For example "ContentType:'cancer' biomedical" will search for biomedical only within items that have the content type 'cancer'.

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