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What is the advanced search criteria to search inside what could be a specific but slightly changing list of folders?

Search and Retrieval Laserfiche

Updated February 28, 2017

asked on February 28, 2017

My client was interested in knowing if they could search through multiple of specific type of folder. They have client folders and each client folder has a contracts folder. They want to be able to search through all the contract folders, without having to jump from client folder to client folder. Is there a search syntax that could search though those folders efficiently in 1 search? Essentially searching through "Client Files/A/Contracts/" and "Client Files/B/Contracts/" and so on and so forth. They are on version 9.2 of Laserfiche. Thanks!

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replied on February 28, 2017

We use10.1 so I am not sure if it will carry over, but the search syntax would be

{LF:LOOKIN="Client Files//Contracts"}

or with custom search

Within Folder
Selected Folders

within "Client Files//Contracts"

include subfolders

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The correct format for folder paths is to user a backslash \, and there is no meaning to the double slash, \\ or //. When specifying a folder path, you must specify the full path. See the help files on searching within folders for more details.

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I'm a little unclear which level you want to search under. If you just need to search all Client Files, the Within Folder search (available through the UI) will do what you need, but if you need a specific subfolder within the Client Files, the ParentName search type might help.

For example, you could search for {LF:ParentName="Contracts"} to search within all the contracts subfolders.

If you need to limit it to the Client Files path, you could combine a Within folder Search with an LF:ParentName search, since Within Folder allows you to search subfolders:

{LF:LOOKIN="repoName\FolderPath\Client Files"}&{LF:ParentName="Contracts"} & (yourOtherCriteriaHere)

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