Searching in Ovation
A cornerstone feature of Ovation is the ability to search all the documents to which you have access, and Ovation makes it easy to make nuanced queries of everything in your projects so you can find exactly what you're looking for. The search bar in the application header at the top of the screen is your gateway to fast search results.
Direct Query
Know the exact file name you're looking for? Easy. Just enter in the file name and press enter. You'll be taken to the search results page, and your file will be there. Just click on the file to visit its page. If you have several files that match that file name, you'll be shown all the files, sorted by how closely the file name resembles your query. To ensure that you're searching just the names of files, enter name:"My ExactFileName". Quotes around the file name are optional if the name is one word (e.g. name:Report). If the field you're searching has a space, you can use a "\" to indicate the space is part of the field name: file\ name:"My ExactFileName" would find entities with a "file name" attribute equal to "My ExactFileName".
Tag Search
Tags are an important part of any data management system, and Ovation has full support for not only tagging files with as many tags as you want, but searching all your files for a particular tag or tags. Search for files with a tag by entering tag:"my tag" or tag:mytag to return all the results that match your query. Want to search for files with several tags? You can use the logical operators AND, OR, or NOT. For example, you can enter tag:"my tag" AND tag:"other tag" for results that have both tags. You can use tag:"my tag" OR tag:"other tag" to return results that have one or the other tag. The query tag:"my tag" NOT tag:"other tag" will return results with only the first query, but not possible results that have both.
Metadata Searches
Ovation search is powerful enough to search all the files to which you have access based on the metadata it has. For example, if you have a metadata key called rating, and files with that metadata key have values ranging from 1-10, you can return results that only have ratings from 3-6 by searching rating:[3 TO 6] (TO must be capitalized). This will return results where the rating metadata is great than or equal to 3, and less than or equal to 6. Want to search for everything that has a rating less than or equal to six? Search for rating:[-Infinity TO 6]. How about a rating of 6 or above? Search rating:[6 TO Infinity].
Fuzzy Searches
Don't quite know a file name, or have a file naming scheme where everything has the same prefix, but a variety of characters after, depending on the file? Fuzzy searches help you find those files. For example, I have a variety of files that all start with "christmas", but look like "halloween_10-2016", "halloween_10-2015", and "halloween_10-2014". In order to return all those results, I simply search halloween*. What if things are a little fuzzier, and I might have various spellings of "halloween", and I abbreviated it for some files? Search hall~ to return all results like "hall", "hallwn", and "halloween".