QuickFind Search Tips

QuickFind Search Tips

Objective: Refine your QuickFind search

Use any of these types of searches in the QuickFind field. With "All Assets" selected, you can search across all of your asset locations. 

 

Search TypeDescriptionEnter in Quickfind
Single TermEnter any descriptive details about the file such as file name, extension, keywords, etc.cat

Multiple Term

(Boolean implied OR )

Enter multiple descriptive details about the file.

sand beach

Boolean ( AND )

Use in simple searches to find assets with two terms containing AND.

sand AND beach

Boolean ( NOT )

Use in simple searches to find assets with two terms containing NOT.

beach NOT sand

Wildcard

Use the * to wildcard search for any number of characters. For example, entering *cat will contain results that would include any assets that contain “cat” as the root. Such as ”cat, catastrophe, scatterbrained, dog-cats, uncategorical."

hold* AND part*

Phrasal

 

Add quotations "" between your search to obtain an exact match on a phrase.

"summer storm"

 

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