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Advanced Term Search

Advanced term search is accessible on multiple occasions, but is functionally the same.

How to use

Section titled How to use

Term name keywords

Section titled Term name keywords

Uses Apache Lucene query parser syntax on the term names.

Term definition keywords

Section titled Term definition keywords

Uses Apache Lucene query parser syntax on the term definitions.

Keep obsolete terms

Section titled Keep obsolete terms

To show obsolete terms in search results or not.

Apache Lucene query parser syntax

Section titled Apache Lucene query parser syntax

You can find in depth information on this topic on the source documentation from Apache Lucene.

Common use cases might include:

Section titled Simple Search
Example
instrument model

Specifies that the result MUST contain instrument OR model.

Must include (+)

Section titled Must include (+)
Example
+instrument model

Using the + operator specifies that the result MUST contain instrument and MAY contain model

Must not include (-)

Section titled Must not include (-)
Example
instrument model NOT SCIEX


instrument model -SCIEX

Using the -/NOT operator specifies that the result MUST contain instrument OR model and MUST NOT contain SCIEX.

Grouping (” ”)

Section titled Grouping (” ”)
Example
"instrument model"

Using "" grouping syntax specifies that the result MUST contain instrument model.