About Search

DBFM Search

DBFM Search enables users to find documents, revision files etc. located in the DBFM system. Documents can be searched for by filename or key words within a document. Searches are NOT case sensitive.

If you require documents containing the words '2009' and 'Sales', then enter these as your search keywords. So a search for 2009 Sales (without quotes) will return all documents containing both the word 2009 AND the word Sales.

Where multiple words are needed the search phrase must be set in quotes, so typing "2009 Sales" as the search keywords, would return only documents containing the phrase "2009 Sales".

Searches can also be refined by using boolean terms. So your search query could be in the form 'Sales 2008 OR 2009' in this case the documents containing 'Sales' AND either '2008' OR '2009' will be returned.

Alternatively, '-' (minus, equivalent to the Boolean NOT) can be included in the search query in the form 'Sales -2009'. In this example, the search results would return the documents that contained the word 'sales' provided they did NOT contain the word '2009'. Boolean AND is implied

Simple Search.

As its name implies, simple search provides a quick method of locating files held within and below the current directory based purely on their filename.