Text search help

The search tool allows you to search for occurances of words anywhere in the organization database. For example, to search for all organizations whose description mentions the word butterfly just use:

butterfly

To search for a phrase enclose the words in quotes:

"wild places"

You can use '*' to match any character sequence and '?' to match a single character, e.g.

bird*

but note that you can not use these wildcard characters at the start of a word.

You can also search for words which are similar to a given word but might be spelt slightly differently by using a tilda:

organization~

You can search for matches just within a given field such as:

has_year_formed:1912

Useful field names are:

has_year_formed
has_long_description
has_primary_prorg_name

You can search for ranges using "{ .. TO .. }" for example:

has_year_formed:{1900 TO 1940}

Note that the "TO" must be in upper case.

Finally your can group queries together using AND OR NOT - and (..) for example:

(bird* OR butterfly) AND -trust