The application listings have a search which uses the Lucene query parser syntax and searches also the contents of the applications. The search tems are joined with the "OR" operation, unless the query specifies otherwise.
By default the search looks into all fields, but the using the fieldname:
syntax it's possible to build more specific queries. Wildcards ? and * are
supported, plus many more. See the query syntax documentation
for more details.
Note: Some special characters such as
/and@require the search term to be enclosed in quotes even when it's just a single word.
platypus - find an exact word
platy*, plat?pus - find using part of a word
+egg +bacon -spam, egg AND bacon NOT spam - find items with egg and bacon, but no spam
id:42, id:"2019/12" - find by application ID
applicant:alice - find by applicant's user ID
applicant:"Alice Liddell" - find by applicant's full name
applicant:"[email protected]" - find by applicant's email
member:lewis - find by member's user ID
member:"Lewis Carroll" - find by member's full name
member:"[email protected]" - find by member's email
title:platypus - find by application title
resource:platypus - find by resource/catalogue item name
state:approved - find by application state
form:platypus - find by application form content
The catalogue page and admin pages use a simpler search mechanism which only does a substring search of the values shown in the table. The search tems are joined with the "AND" operation.