How to search the Community Wiki

You can search for any given text or even for specific property values within the Community Wiki. Basic search patterns are:

• all of the words: "data selector and data provider"
• exact phrase: "Data Providers"
• at least one of the words: "provider" OR "selector"
• wildcards: per*
• fuzzy words: geneus~
• grouping words: (selector OR provider) AND NOT data
• inclusion/exclusion: search "parm -event" and it finds the parts where a "parm" exists and where no "event" appears.

Check the following link to know additional options to search.

Advanced (Community Wiki specific)

You can also combine the previous search patterns with specific property values which are indexed every time a page is saved to enhance your search results:

• Type: you can search for a specific page type, the available options are: Article, Image, File, Category, Template, Talk, Group or Toc.  
• Status: if you want to look for a page status, the available options are: Open, Closed or ToDelete.
• Owner: you can also search for a page owner of a wiki page.
• User: or for the last user who saved a page.
• Category: search for pages within a specific category name.
• Viewstatus: page viewstatus, Public or Private, is another value you can add to your inquiry.

Samples

• Suppose you want to search for all the wiki pages of type Image with Closed status, below you will find the best way to do it:

            type: image status: Closed

• In the case you need to find all the wiki pages in the GeneXus X Evolution 3 Documentation category containing the msbuild word, your search will look like this:

           category:GeneXus X Evolution 3 Documentation msbuild

• Maybe you are looking for all the wiki pages from the admin user, with open status in the Eng category, you will have to type this in the search bar:

           owner:admin status:open category:Eng

• What if you still want to search all the wiki pages with open status but now you need to find definitions in category? The solution is simple:

           status:open category:definitions

• You are also able to search for all the wiki pages of type file containing the mono word: 

           type:file mono

• How do you find all the wiki pages of type category containing the management word?:

           type:category management

• Find only articles containing "user controls" words, not marked to delete and owned by Pedro:

            user controls -status:todelete owner:pedro type:article

• Search for all wiki pages of type table of content containing the timezone word, with this format:

           type:toc timezone

• In the case you need to find all the articles that have View Status on Public, you can search this way:

           type: article viewstatus: public

Warning

The following words will not be taken into account in the search:

an, and, are, as, at, be, but, by, for, if, in, into, no, not, of, or, such, that, the, their, then, there, this, they, to, will, with.