Specification for full text search on bulletin board

This section describes the topic search specifications.
The following topics cannot be searched:

  • Posting a draft
  • Topic Awaiting topic
  • Expired topics

Items That Can Be Searched in the System Administration Screen

For details, refer to Items That Can Be Searched in the System Administration Screen in "Specifications for Standard Search".

Items That Can Be Searched in the User Screen

The following items can be searched by entering keywords in the search box on the user screen

Categories
Search items Remarks
Category names You can search the category name of the same display name as the language that is used by the user.
You cannot search for categories that do not have user rights.
Topic
Search items Remarks
Subject  
Body  
Comment  
Attachment file name  
Attachment contents For a searchable file format, refer to full text Search file.

Options Available for Search

On the "Search results" screen, you can search by using the following options

  • Keyword:
    Enter the keywords you want to search.
    For the specification on the search keywords, refer to Search keywords.
  • Search in:
    Set what you want to search.
    • Topic
    • Category name
      You can search the category and the category name of that subcategory.
      If you have selected a category other than root, search all categories is displayed.
      Select to search all categories in bulletin board. Image of searching a bulletin board category
  • Sort by:
    Set the display order of search results.
    • Relevance:
      This item is displayed in order of relevance, based on the frequency of keywords and the spacing of keywords in the data.
    • Updated:
      Search results are displayed in the descending order of the updated date and time.
  • View only files/titles:
    Configure the target items to search. "Search only files" and "Search topic subjects" cannot be used at the same time.
    • Show only files
      Finds data that contains keywords in the attachment file name. You can filter by attachment type.
    • Search title:
      Searches for data with keywords in the title.
  • From:
    You can filter your search by a topic creator. Enter a display name of the user in the "From" field.
  • Period:
    Set the period to search.
    • If you want to specify only the start date:
      Searches data updated from the specified date to the current period.
    • To specify the end date only:
      Finds data updated in the period from the oldest data to the specified date.
  • Language:
    Set the language that you want to search.