User Guide

Using And/Or in Complex Searches
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ImageAXS includes a pop-up menu at the end of any row
that is followed by another row, so you can choose either
and or or to define the relationship between the rows.
In searches connected by and or or, ImageAXS interprets and
as separating the terms that come before or after it, whereas
or binds the preceding and following terms together into
one condition. This definition becomes important when a
single search combines and and or relationships.
For example, a search consisting of
Condition A and Condition B or Condition C or
Condition D
would be interpreted as
(Condition A) and (Condition B or Condition C or
Condition D)
rather than
(Condition A and Condition B) or (Condition C) or
(Condition D).
The search terms shown in the above illustration depict this
example This search would find all records for which the
source file is online, then limit the results to those records
where the name of the source file contains “.mov,” “.wav,”
or “.b3D.”