Unofficial Content

You can search for any given text or even for specific property values within the GeneXus Wiki.

The 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 https://lucene.apache.org/core/2_9_4/queryparsersyntax.html to know additional options to search.

Advanced

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

  • 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 look 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. You will find the best way to do it below:

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 it 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.

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