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What does the "Smart Search" option do within the Find box?

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June 20, 2019
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As the title says. I cannot seem to find any information on this feature.

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Best answer by Maison W

Hi Jack! Thanks for posting. With smart search on any punctuation or regular expression items are replaced with wildcard expressions meaning anything will match them. For example with smart search on if you searched for "te*t" the smart search would bring up any word that had those letters in that order with any letter replacing the asterisk: text test etc. Hope this helps!

Maison WAnswer

Lucid support team

Hi Jack! Thanks for posting. With smart search on any punctuation or regular expression items are replaced with wildcard expressions meaning anything will match them. For example with smart search on if you searched for "te*t" the smart search would bring up any word that had those letters in that order with any letter replacing the asterisk: text test etc. Hope this helps!

lucid J

Thanks for this reply @maison w however i cant find any documentation on the Smart Search feature so im hoping you can help:

how "far" does smart search take regex? does it ONLY allow for wildcards - ( also it seems that . (a period) also works as wildcard single character along with * as well.

ie im trying to get a logical OR to work and cant seem to (or i dont know the syntax lucid's smartSearch is looking for).

(2c|6c)5d........

(hoping it will match any starting with: 2c OR 6c and wildcards...

i have tried several variations (the instant match feature is very nice for this btw).

tks

Micah

Lucid community team

@lucid j Thanks for continuing this thread! Unfortunately our Smart Search tool doesn't support Boolean operators like "or". Maison's response above describes the extent of its functionality. However I certainly understand how this sort of advanced searching ability would expand how you're able to use the tool - great idea! I've logged it for review by our development team. Thank you for taking the time to share more great feedback with us! Apologies for any inconvenience this causes - please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help.

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Romuel

It would be helpful if @Maison W’s original explanation was made available from the Find dialog box.

Micah

Lucid community team

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