Where Do I Start?
| 1 | Select a search interface, enter keywords, and click the button to get results. > |
| 2 | Review search results. > |
| 3 | Use facets to easily refine results. > |
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Getting Started Using Coveo .NET Front-End
| 1 | Select the tab for the search interface that best fits the scope of your search. > |
| 2 | Enter keywords representing what you are looking for. > |
| 3 | Launch the search to get results. |
| 4 | Click the Do more menu to manage filters, export to Excel... > |
| 5 | Access the Advanced Search page to include more search criteria. > |
| 6 | Access the Preferences page to modify search interface aspects. > |
| 7 | Access this Coveo online help. |
| 8 | Click RSS  link to set a RSS feed for a query. > |
| 9 | Click Link  to view, copy, and share the complete query sent to the Coveo server. > |
Search Syntax You Can Use in the Search Box
| Example | Only returns |
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+keyword
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Documents containing the + prefixed term, not other terms sharing the same stem. > |
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"the sentence I search for"
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Documents containing the exact phrase enclosed in double quotes. > |
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from:alice
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Emails sent by or to somebody using the from and to email field aliases. > |
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@author=paul @title="annual report"
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Documents matching the @ prefixed field or field alias name and specified content. > |
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@date>today-7d
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Document matching the date field expression using the now, today, yesterday, s, m, h, d, mo, and y date/time operators with mathematical operators. > |
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(report OR status) NEAR:10 financial
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Documents containing the keywords matching the logic specified by the operators (AND, OR, NOT, NEAR) and optionally parenthesis. > |
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gr?y color
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Documents containing the variants of the term in which ? and * wildcard characters can be any character(s). > |
Refining Results with Facets
| 1 | Facet criterion is file Type. |
| 2 | Number of search results for each file type |
| 3 | Selected check boxes to only show Word and PDF search results. |
| 4 | Type in the search box to locate and use other file types. |
| 5 | Use the Year facet to further refine results. Here, search results created in 2012 are excluded. |
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Hover an item and click |
| 7 | Click the collapse icon  to reduce the facet size by hiding its items.
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| 8 | Click the eraser icon  to reset all facet selections.
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to exclude the item.
Reviewing Search Results
| 1 | Review the number of results on the current page and in total. |
| 2 | Click Clear All to reset all facet selections. |
| 3 | Click Relevance or Date to change the search result sorting. > |
| 4 | Navigate to other search result pages. |
Anatomy of a Search Result
Each search interface includes an optimized search result template. Look at this email search result example.
| 1 | Email icon and subject - Click to open the email in your email application (like Microsoft Outlook). |
| 2 | Sender and recipient names |
| 3 | Email excerpt > |
| 4 | Email thread summary - Click  to expand the series of folded exchanged emails. > |
| 5 | Icon and attachment file name - Click to open an attached document with the native application. |
| 6 | Click Quick View to open an HTML version of the email. > Click Attachments to refine search results only to the messages of this thread containing an attachment. Click Details to open an inline panel with Summary and Properties tabs. > |
| 7 | Message date |
Quickly Reviewing a Search Result
| 1 | Click Quick View for a search result you want to review. |
| 2 | Click the desired keyword to instantly navigate in the document through occurrences of the color highlighted keywords. |
| 3 | Click Open to open the document in its native application. |
| 4 | Click Detach to open the HTML document in a web browser to access features such as printing. |
| 5 | Click Next / Previous to view the next or previous search result without leaving the Quick View window. |
| 6 | Click Other Results to select another search result to view, from the list of available search results. |