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Searching in PlanetPress Search
This chapter explains how to define and launch a search. It also explains what a search result is in PlanetPress Search and the
operations you can perform on search results.
Once you have a search profile that references a search database, you are ready to perform a search in PlanetPress Search.
In this section, you learn to:
l "Perform a Search Using a Basic Query" (page 27)
l "Perform a Search Using an SQL Query" (page 29)
l Change the View on Search Results
l "Select Search Results" (page 32)
l "View the PDF Associated with a Search Result" (page 33)
l "Create a PDF of Search Result Pages" (page 33)
l "Print PDF Pages Referenced by Search Results" (page 33)
l "Print a Summary of the Search Results List" (page 34)
l "Copy Information from the Results List" (page 34)
In addition, you will be able to answer the following questions:
l "Search" (page 25)
l What is a search result in PlanetPress Search?
Search
What is a search in PlanetPress Search?
A search in PlanetPress Search is performed on a search database. See "Understanding PlanetPress Search" (page n).
You can search the index information of a single document (a single record in the search database) or of all documents (all rec-
ords in the search database). If you search the index information of all documents, you can search only identically named
index terms common to all the documents.
PlanetPress Search provides two ways to define the search query it uses to perform a search: Basic and SQL.
l Use a Basic query if you are unfamiliar with Structured Query Language (SQL) or find it more convenient to define the
query without using SQL. In this case, PlanetPress Search uses the set of search criteria you define to construct the SQL
query.
l "Perform a Search Using a Basic Query" (page 27)
Search Result
What is a search result in PlanetPress Search?
A search result in PlanetPress Search is a pointer to the page of the PDF file that satisfies the search criteria defined for the
search. Each search result contains:
l The name and creation date of the PDF file that contains the search result, as well as the page number on which the
search result appears.
l In a Basic search, for each of the index terms in the document, the value of that index term on that page of the PDF. If
you search all documents in the database, the search result includes only identically named index terms that are com-
mon to all the documents. In an SQL search, for each of the index terms referenced by the SQL query, the value of that
Searching in PlanetPress Search
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