Does it sound familiar to you: you are looking for a page in Management System and you type into the search box in a page overview, click Enter and ... either you see no matches or too many matches. Strange, you think, then click on "extended search" and type the same term into the Name textbox. Then the results are what you expected.

Why does it happen? Because different search logic is used in the basic search and extended search. The "basic" in basic search refers to the user interface - it really simple - one textbox. The logic behind is pretty sophisticated. It uses AxCMS.net Index Search and it means - you can use all the features it provides (see below).

Extended search allows you to filter by any field you like or a combination of those. But behind the scense a simple LIKE-search in the SQL server is used. So if you type "myPage" it searches for "Name LIKE '%myPage%'".

How to achieve better results with the basic search?

If you know, in which page field you want to search, just specify the field. Search for "Name=myPage" instead of just "myPage". If you omit the field name, it searches in all possible fields, inclusive the page content. (Now you know, why you sometimes find more as you wish.) This syntax will not search parts of the words. Apply wildcards. Search for "Name=myPage*" or even for "Name=*myPage*". Here are some other usefull fields you can search in:

• Content
• Title (HTML-title)
• Caption (aka Headline)
• Description
• AdditionalString
• Keywords

But you don't even need to go to the page overview to search for a page. At the top-right corner of the screen you see a permanent search box. It has exactly the same behaviour as the textbox of the basic search in Page Overview.

Searching in Documents is very similar.

Search syntax support even more complex stuff, like logical operators AND, OR and NOT. You can find all the details in Help & Support Center.