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LF 9 search behavior

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Updated March 17, 2014

asked on March 17, 2014 • Show version history

I have a long time LF user that was just recently upgraded to LF9 client. They are reporting that the text search is not functioning the way it used to.

When they want to search for multiple words in a document, in LF8 and earlier, in the text search, they would just use the ampersand to separate the terms:

term1 & term2 & term3

If they use that search in their LF9 client now, they get 0 results. If they go to a PC with LF8 client, they will get the results they expected.

They have found in LF9, if they wrap each term in quotes, then they get results:

"term1" & "term2" & "term3"

Is this an intended change in the LF9 client? If so, is there a setting they can use to bring back the LF8 client behavior?

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replied on March 17, 2014

Here's what's going on.

This is a side-effect of the intuitive search updates that were added in 9.1. In short, the text and basic searches were updated to be more like standard web searches, where you didn't have to add a lot of operators, quotes, or punctuation to find what you were looking for. In this case, the ampersands actually shouldn't be needed anymore. Just typing in:

term1 term2 term3

should get you what you want.

That said, we'd need to look through the specs to be sure, but I wouldn't have expected it to break the existing query. Can you provide some more specifics so we can look into that for a future version:

Where exactly is this being entered (Basic, Quick, or Text Search)?
What does the advanced search syntax box say for each scenario?

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replied on March 17, 2014

Is this the 9.0 or the 9.1 Client? There was a lot of work done to proper search term quoting in the 9.1 Client to go along with the more intuitive search updates.

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replied on March 17, 2014

Client LF v9.1.0.413

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