Like other search engines, the GroupWise search engine creates an index of whole words that are contained in the items being searched. When you search with Find, GroupWise compares your search criteria and attempts to match them with the words in the search index. Because Find searches for whole words, Find does not locate punctuation or partial words, unless you use a wildcard character.
On the other hand, Find recognizes consecutive characters, even if they are not whole words, as long as the characters exist in exactly the same order you enter them in the Find field.
For example, if you are looking for an email with “Project status meeting next Tuesday” as the subject, you can search for any or all of the words in the subject in Find.
The following are among the successful search criteria results for this scenario:
|
Tool |
Example |
Finds |
|---|---|---|
|
Global Find (by subject) |
meeting tuesday |
All items with both “meeting” and “tuesday” somewhere in the subject. |
|
Global Find (by subject) |
meeting? tuesday |
All items with either “meeting” or “meetings” and “tuesday” somewhere in the subject. |
|
Advanced Find (by subject) |
meeting tuesday |
All items with both “meeting” and “tuesday” somewhere in the subject. |
|
Find |
meeting tuesday |
All items with the characters “meeting tuesday” together in exactly that order in the subject. |
|
Find |
meeting *day |
All items with “meeting” followed immediately by a day of the week in the subject. |