Description:
This document describes how you can combine several search terms in the search function of the LANCOM Support Knowledge Base to optimize the search results.
Exact phrase search
Use the double quotation mark (") to search for content that contains, for example, the phrase 'yellow book' or where 'book' and 'yellow' are major words.
"yellow book"
Confluence ignores common words (stop words) such as 'and', 'it’, 'the', etc., even when they are enclosed in double quotes.
Example:
- Searching for "yellow book" only returns pages that have 'yellow' immediately before 'book'.
- Searching for "a yellow" will not display pages containing only the 'a' because 'a' is a stop word.
OR search
To search for content that contains one of the terms 'chalk' or 'book', use the uppercase OR operator.
chalk OR book
AND search
To search for content that contains both of the terms 'chalk' and 'book', use the uppercase AND operator.
chalk AND book
NOT search
To search for content that contains the term 'chalk' but not 'book', use the uppercase NOT operator.
chalk NOT book
Excluded term search
To search for content that contains 'chalk' and 'butter' but not 'book', type this:
chalk butter -book
