| Return results where search term is a folder name or in file path [message #475] |
Tue, 14 February 2017 22:57  |
Leah Ford
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Registered: February 2017
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Hi - I'm wondering how I can return results for file paths or folder names
that include my search term.
For example if I search the term "chemical A" I'd like to return results
like
.../user/chemicals/chemical-A/...
and
.../user/chemicals/chemical-A/img-001.png
Currently, neither the folder Chemical-A nor img-001.png show up in my
results.
Thanks!
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| Re: Return results where search term is a folder name or in file path [message #476 is a reply to message #475] |
Tue, 14 February 2017 23:48  |
Atlas
Messages: 140
Registered: August 2009
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I think this happening by default. When you search for a term, it will
search for that term in the file's path as well. So if you store a file
named X under a file named Y, and then search for the term "Y", the file
named X will come up even though Y is no where in its content or name. It
works most of the time, but the behavior seems a bit unpredictable.
I really want to search for terms in the path name as well.
-Dat
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Leah Ford wrote:
> Hi - I'm wondering how I can return results for file paths or folder names
> that include my search term.
>
> For example if I search the term "chemical A" I'd like to return results
> like
>
> .../user/chemicals/chemical-A/...
>
> and
>
> .../user/chemicals/chemical-A/img-001.png
>
> Currently, neither the folder Chemical-A nor img-001.png show up in my
> results.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> --
>
> ---
>
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| Re: Return results where search term is a folder name or in file path [message #478 is a reply to message #475] |
Fri, 17 February 2017 20:03 |
FoxTrot Engineering
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Registered: April 2020
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Leah Ford wrote:
> Hi - I'm wondering how I can return results for file paths or folder names
> that include my search term.
The parent folder name (but not higher parent folders in the path) is indexed as a metadata. With FoxTrot Pro, you can search:
[any metadata or filename] [includes consecutive words] [chemical A]
This should find any file in a folder whose name contains "chemical A", but will also find files whose name or maybe some other metadata attribute contains "chemical A".
You can add a second criterion:
[filename] [does not include consecutive words] [chemical A]
to remove those containing the string in the filename.
> Currently, neither the folder Chemical-A nor img-001.png show up in my
> results.
Maybe the relevance slider (i.e. "1,000 most relevant items), or another categorization filter, prevent them to be shown?
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