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Orphea Studio Searching Tips:

The top part of the screen contains a quick search area. This part is made up of:

A text field to formulate your full text search

A button to execute your search (GO or OK).

How to Formulate a Search

You can search for one or several words by using the following operators: AND (+) OR (|), EXCEPT (-). The operator by default is AND. Example: woman and child = woman child.

In every case, please do not forget to put a space between the operators and the words, without which the chain will be considered as a whole expression. Example: "woman + child" not "woman+child".

Note: the search engine is not case-sensitive (capitals or lowercase will return the same results) and is not sensitive either to plural forms or accents. Example: "New York cafés" is equivalent to "new york cafe". The results of a search for the word "liberty" are identical to the results for a search formulated "liberties".

Wild card searches

You can search for the beginning of a word by using the joker characters * or % after the first few letters. For example, a search for sport* (or sport%) will return documents indexed with the words sport, sports, sportswear,...

Joker characters may also be used in the middle of a search string (searching for a word which starts with X and ends in Y). The search engine cannot return results for search strings, which begin with joker characters; it simply ignores the joker and searches on the remaining characters.

Using the associated keywords

After displaying the results of a search or the documents within a feature (a report or series of documents), the system automatically displays all the keywords related to the found documents. In the left-hand column, these keywords are listed along with the number of documents associated with them. To refine the search using one of these keywords, simply click on the desired term.

Using the Quick Search Zone

The search engine can look everywhere in the database for words you have searched for in "Full Text" mode. The words that you indicate here will be looked for in the all of the document description fields (title, description, keywords) that are indexed in full text.

Advanced Search

The advanced mode allows you to make a more precise and more targeted search for documents. There are 3 search modes: full text, description field, and keyword. Whatever mode you use, you may further refine your search by using the available filters.

Limit search to the following stocks:

You can limit your search to one or several stock libraries by checking the corresponding checkboxes. The documents in the database are classified into distinct libraries. By default, the search is performed within all of the libraries.

Document Release date:

This filter allows you to specify dates upon which the search will be performed (document creation date or date when the document was entered into the database).

Full text search tab

This search mode is identical to that of the quick search area, with the exception of the fact that you can use the additional filters presented in the advanced search pages. See the topic "Using the quick search area".

Field search tab

This search mode allows you to search within 3 description fields by combining the standard operators AND OR and EXCEPT.

In this way, you may define up to three lines of criteria. For each line: Select the field in the presented list, then select the appropriate operator. Then, enter the term you wish to search for within the field.

The proposed operators are: begins with, is equal to, and contains. The operator contains is only available for the fields in the database which have been full-text indexed (title, description, keywords).

Wildcard searches do not function in this mode.

Keyword search tab

You may search for keywords used to describe the indexed documents. To do this, enter your search term in the "Search for" zone. To reveal keywords present in the database which are similar to your search term, click on the button "Show keywords". The system will then look for the keywords, which begin with the word you have entered.

A list of keywords will then appear. Each word ends with the number of times it occurs in the database, that is, the number of times it was used as a keyword to describe a document. Select one or more of these terms (control-click on PC, right-click on Mac), and then execute your search by clicking on the "search button located at the bottom of the page.

Note: This type of search is identical to a search in Field search mode using only the "keywords" field. If you select multiple terms, the operator used is OR.

Using the Classification Tree List

The site you are browsing has a classification list in the left-hand column which allows you to see an overview of the site's contents and to perform a search by clicking on one of the terms displayed.