Available Field Aliases
Example: The field alias for the systitle field is simply title.
End-users not commonly type field queries mainly because one needs to know the available system field names. Many generic and repository specific system fields are available, but most of them are only useful to administrators and developers (see Available System Fields).
Standard field aliases listed below have been defined for fields that may be useful to end-users.
Note: Your Coveo administrator can define more system field aliases, for example to adapt the names of the aliases to a language other than English (see Managing Field Aliases).
| Field alias | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| addeddate | Contains the date at which the document was first added to the index. | @addeddate=today
Finds documents added to the index today. |
| author | Contains the author of the document. | @author=John
Finds documents whose author is John. |
| collection | Contains the name of the collection in which the document is indexed. A collection is an index subdivision (see Understanding Coveo .NET Components Hierarchy). | @collection=Coveo
Finds documents from the Coveo collection. |
| concepts | Contains the key concepts extracted by the Coveo Platform from the document and presented in the search results excerpt and summary (see What Is an Excerpt? and What Is a Summary?). | @concepts=stemming
Finds documents for which the concept stemming was extracted. |
| containsattachment | Indicates if the document contains attachments (email attachments or files in an archive such as a .zip or .rar). | @containsattachment
Finds documents containing attachments. |
| date | Alias for the sysdate field so it contains the date on which the document was last modified or the creation
date for a new document.
Note: The indexing date of a document is indicated by addeddate; whereas, its re-indexing, refreshing or rebuilding date is indicated by indexeddate. |
@date=today
Finds documents created or modified today. @date>now-5h Finds documents created or modified less than 5 hours ago. |
| fileextension | Contains the file extension of the document. | @fileextension=pdf
Finds documents whose file extension contains pdf. |
| filename | Contains the filename of the document. | @filename=Online_Documentation
Finds documents whose file names contain Online_Documentation. |
| filetype | Contains the document type (see Supported File Formats). | @filetype=doc
Finds Microsoft Word documents. |
| from | Contains the sender of an email. | @from=John
Finds emails whose sender name contains John. |
| indexeddate | Contains the most recent date on which the document was re-indexed, refreshed or rebuilt.
Note: The indexing date of a document is indicated by addeddate; whereas, its modification date by date. |
@indexeddate<now-1mo
Finds documents indexed more than a month ago. |
| isattachment | Indicates if the document is an attachment (email attachments or files in an archive such as .zip or .rar). | @isattachment
Finds email attachments and documents in archive files (ex.: files in a .zip archive). |
| isrecord | Indicates if a document is a record such as a row in a database table or an element of an XML file. | @isrecord
Finds documents that come from a database repository. |
| isreference | Indicates if the document is indexed by reference (see What Is the Difference between Indexing by Reference and Indexing by Content?). | @isreference
Finds documents indexed by reference. not @isreference Finds documents indexed by content. |
| language | Contains the language of the document (see Supported Languages). | @language=Spanish
Finds documents written in Spanish. not @language Finds documents whose language is unknown. |
| links | Contains links towards other documents included in a document. | @links=http://www.coveo.com
Find documents that include a link towards the http://www.coveo.com document. |
| site | Contains the website address of the document. | @site=www.coveo.com
Finds documents located on the Coveo website. |
| size | Contains the size, in bytes, of the document. | @size>1024
Finds documents whose size is superior to 1 kB. |
| source | Contains the source in which the document is indexed. A source is an index subdivision (see Understanding Coveo .NET Components Hierarchy). | @source=Coveo
Finds documents from the Coveo source. |
| title | Contains the title of the document. | @title=Coveo
Finds documents whose title contains the word Coveo. |
| to | Contains the recipients of the email. | @to=John
Finds emails whose recipient contains John. |
| uri | Contains the URI of the document. | @uri=Coveo
Finds documents whose URI contains the word Coveo. |