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Searches in Weblink 8.2.2

WebLink Laserfiche Version 8

Updated February 27, 2014

asked on February 27, 2014

Currently I have a number of documents in a folder in my repository that contain "-"'s in the name. For example 123-45-678. When I try and search for the document within weblink 123-45-678 it will not return any documents ( I am searching within that folder that contains the document). Searching within the folder with the full client finds the document. I verified that the weblink designer is setup for entry names.

Anyone have any thoughts or solutions? Thanks!

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replied on February 27, 2014

Can you clarify where in WebLink you're performing the search?

Is this the search box that's on the Welcome page?

Is this the search box that's on the Browse page?

Is this a customized search you are performing from the actual Search page?

Or is this being done through a search form that's been created from the WebLink Designer?

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replied on February 27, 2014

Does it matter if you search with quotes manually added? So explicitly search "123-45-678" instead of 123-45-678? The Client will often add those as needed, but I'm not sure Weblink does. Without the quotes, the Server will try to process the dash as a minus operator.

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replied on February 27, 2014

I just tried placing double quotes and single quotes (example "123-45-678" and '123-45-6789' ) it didn't return any results that was specific to my search.

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replied on February 27, 2014

I am currently using the search box on the welcome page and or the browse page. Currently I am not using the customized search ( I have disable the search pane within the designer). My intention was for the user to scan a barcode (that contained the document name) and perform the search.

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replied on February 27, 2014 • Show version history

You cannot currently escape special characters (that is any of the following: - & | ^ ) in WebLink quick searches. See this post on the old forums. Chris Hagen posted his javascript solution to work around this to that discussion.

There are two feature requests currently in our WebLink backlog: 1) operators/special characters should be escaped when the search term is in double quotes and 2) allow administrators to toggle escaping of special characters for quick search.

We do not have an estimated timeline for these to be implemented.

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replied on February 27, 2014

Thanks for responses! I will give the work around a try.

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