Best way to search text in a specific field

What is the best way to do the following- Gather all documents with a specific name

  • search through all of those documents for text inside of a specific fields’ text

I know that I can use document collection to gather a set of documents, but how can I single out documents with specific names?

Once I have that collection of documents how can I search through one specific field for text that that matches (more like a LIKE command in SQL)

I’ve looked on the internet for example, but nothing really hits what I am trying to do.

Thanks for the help!

-Kris

Subject: notesdatabase.search

It sounds like you’re wanting to get this collection within script, to do something with it there. I would think you’d want to use:

Set notesDocumentCollection = notesDatabase.Search( formula$, notesDateTime, maxDocs% )

The Designer Help will give you a good intro. One of their examples seems similr to what you want:

searchFormula$ = {Form = “Project” & ReminderDate = @Today}

Set collection = db.Search(searchFormula$, Nothing,0)

Subject: Search Doc

I did read that from the docs. I have a field that is a summary field. Will ideaSummary = “Test” give me a result for a doc that has an ideaSummary of “I some to test something sooner” or does ideaSummary have to equal “Test”?

Thank you for your help.

-Kris

Subject: You might be better off with a full-text search

FTSearch method, use the query syntax described in the user help. Look for “Refining a search query using operators”.