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

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

Identical group

Example: All numbers

The universal search can also be used if multiple fields do not use completely identical group names. However, all 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:

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

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

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

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

For example, if you enter 2* as a search term in the field on the search form, ELO finds all documents that contain a number in the metadata that starts with 2.