Searching

An information may be very valuable, but it cannot help, if you can't find it.

The nodes application offers both full text search via the search text box and structured search via the toolbar icon.

Text search

You can enter the search text in the text box, do not forget to push the search button on the right.

Text is restricted to properties of type string. For instance, the text of a HTML page (node type nodes:htmlDiv) will be stored both a string property without markup and as a binary property with markup. The text search will thus only retrieve the text content of HTML pages, not the markup.

Structured search

Structured search uses the structure of the repository to locate result nodes:

  • A node type constraint restricts to nodes of a given type.
  • A path constraint restricts to nodes inheriting from a specified path.
  • A value constraint restricts to nodes having specific property values or child nodes with specific property values. Such searches can be combined logically using not, and and or.

The search uses XPath expressions internally, but assists with structured search dialog, please compare the Structured search use case for details.

A search can be persisted. In that case, the search will be executed, once you navigate to the node representing the persisted search, i.e. having node type nodes:xpathSearch.