Universal search

ELO lets you perform a universal search for certain attributes. This applies to all index fields that use the same groups as well as index fields that have an identical component in the group name.

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If you want to search multiple keywording forms, the group names of the index fields on different keywording forms have to be identical. Using the same group for multiple forms creates a horizontal relation between the index fields.

Identical group

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Example: All numbers

The universal search can also be used when multiple index fields do not use completely identical group names. However, all index fields in the group name must have an identical component at the beginning of the group name.

This is useful, for example, for a universal search for numbers. Please take the following into account:

Index fields for numbers must use a common characteristic (for example: NO):

  • Invoice number index field: NOINV group
  • Customer number index field: NOCUST group
  • Supplier number index field: NOSUPPL group

The search form requires an index field ( All numbers, for example) that uses NO* as a group name.

If you use this search form via the Search keywording function, you can perform a universal search for all numbers.

For example, if you enter 2* as a search term in the search form's index field, ELO finds all documents that contain a number in the keywording data that starts with 2.

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