When you perform a search in a traditional search engine, the only factor that determines whether something is returned in your search results is if it contains the text that you typed into your search query. The Tagging Engine works differently. the Tagging Engine uses search query matching to determine the items and people that it returns to your search results. Three different types of search query matches exist: text matches, tag matches, and property matches.
If your administrator uses Best Bets, items specified as Best Bets appear at the top of your search results. For details, see Oracle WebCenter Interaction Online Help.
This topic discusses:
Text Matches
Tag Matches
Property Matches
For information on rules for creating search queries, see About Tagging Engine Search Syntax.
A text match occurs when the text in your search query matches an item or person's content, tags, or properties. Matched items and people are returned in your search results.
Examples of text matches:
A search query contains holiday AND schedule. The Tagging Engine returns an item that contains both the words "holiday" and "schedule" in your search results.
A search query contains May2007. The Tagging Engine returns an item that has the file name May2007.doc.
A search query contains photographer. The Tagging Engine returns the person John Hill because the "photographer" tag is applied to him. It also returns the marketingplans.doc item because it contains the word "photographer".
The following table lists the specific types of text matches that can occur:
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Item Returned When Text in Search Query Matches: |
Person Returned When Text in Search Query Matches: |
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Text in item content
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Text in the person's portal user profile |
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Item file name
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Person's name
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Item tag
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Tag applied to person |
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Text in item properties
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Text in the person's user properties Note: Your administrator specifies the user properties that are searchable. |
A tag match occurs when a tag reference in your search query matches an item or person's content, tags, or properties. Matched items and people are returned in your search results.
Examples of tag matches:
A search query contains tag:sales OR tag:"western region" OR tag:"eastern region". The Tagging Engine returns all items and people to which either the sales, western region, or eastern region tags are applied.
A search query contains tag:"United Kingdom". The Tagging Engine returns the marketingplans.doc item because it has the United Kingdom tag applied to it.
The following table lists the specific types of tag matches that can occur:
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Item Returned When Tags in Search Query Matches: |
Person Returned When Tags in Search Query Matches: |
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Item tag
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Person's tag |
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Text in item content |
Person's name
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Text in item description
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Text in person's user properties Note: Your administrator specifies the user properties that are searchable. |
Property
Matches
A property match occurs when a property reference in your search query
matches an item or person's property. Matched items and people are returned
in your search results.
Examples of property matches:
A search query contains author:"John Hill" NOT Language:English. The Tagging Engine returns all items that John Hill authored in every language except English.
A search query contains "State or Province":Oregon. The Tagging Engine returns all people who work in the state of Oregon.
The following table lists the different types of property matches that can occur:
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Item Returned When Value of Property in Search Query Matches: |
Person Returned When Value of Property in Search Query Matches: |
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Value of an item's property. For example, a search query includes author:"Cristiana Giordano". The property is author and its value is "Cristiana Giordano". The search results return all documents that were authored by Cristiana Giordano. |
Value of person's user property in person's portal user profile. For example, a search query includes Title:"Sales Manager". The property is Title and its value is Sales Manager. The search results return all people with the title of Sales Manager. |
To find out the item and user properties that you can search for, click the Properties... link for any item or person in your search results. The properties that appear are applied to all items and users that you have access to. Your administrator determines the properties that are visible to you.
To view a list of the properties that you can search for, navigate to the Search Assistant. The drop-down list to the left of the Contains condition includes all of these properties.