Basic Search allows you to find words and phrases in your data. For example, you might enter bob jones contract in a Search box. This search request finds data elements that contain the words bob and jones and contract in them. A data element might be a subject, a message body or notes you added to a message. A single item, such as a fax or a contact, may contain many data elements. Basic Search will evaluate all data elements associated with an item in order to find a match.
A Basic Search request may include one or more words and phrases. Each word or phrase you add to the search narrows the search results. That is, searching for bob might find 100 items, searching for bob jones might find 20 items, and searching for bob jones contract might find 2 items. In a Basic Search request, words and phrases can appear anywhere in a data element, but they all must be present to satisfy the search request.
Individual words, such as bob and contract can appear anywhere in a data element, regardless whether they are together or apart. The words in a phrase, such as “bob jones” or bob.jones must appear together. To tell FaxLogic to match a phrase, enclose the phrase in quotes. FaxLogic matches the text inside the quotes but not the quotes themselves. Alternatively, you can combine words in a phrase using a period (e.g. bob.jones). When you combine words using periods, FaxLogic converts the periods to spaces and treats the words as a phrase.