Hello,
I use the built in search function so search my views but today I have noticed an error, I’m searching a view, it’s finding the correct results and placing them at the top as highly relevant but it’s also finding about 70 extra records and placing them as low relevance, I’ve looked through these records and can find no sign of the word I’ve searched for. Any ideas?
Thanks
Subject: Notes Search bringing up false results
Hidden fields will cause this to happen. When you open a doc that has no obvious ‘hits’, check the bottom of your Notes window and see if you see something like ‘not all results are displayed’ (not sure on the exact wording, but that’s close).
If the index is out of date, that’ll also generate false hits - you’d need to update the index, not refresh the view.
If you’re using fuzzy searching or word variant options, you’ll get extra hits.
HTH
Doug
Subject: Notes Search bringing up false results
Try refresing the views by a single Shift-F9
Subject: Notes Search bringing up false results
Any keywords in hidden fields?
I don’t know how the domino FT search works but SQL databases often have a facility called ‘Query Expansion’ which actually does 2 searches. The first search includes your search terms. It then takes the most relevant few records, has a go at choosing some keywords and does a second search. The results of the second search are then put at the bottom of the list so the least relevant results might not have any of your original search terms in them.