Properties for structured searches with the HDDS search facility

The table below presents the properties you can use for structured searches when the HDDS search facility is active. For each property, the table shows the available operators and the values you can select or type. For descriptions of the properties in the table, see Understanding returned metadata.

Property Operators Values
General

Object Type

is
is not
contains
does not contain

Any
Document
Email
Image
Multimedia
XML
Unknown

Object Content

contains all of
contains any of
contains exactly
does not contain all of
does not contain any of
does not contain exactly

One or more search terms1

This property is the equivalent of a simple search.

Object Path

contains
does not contain

Part or all of an object path or name, not including rest or data (HCP namespaces) or fcfs_data (default namespace)

Object Format

contains
does not contain

File name extension of a recognized document format

Namespace

is
is not

Name of a namespace searchable by the user

To specify a value for this property, type the name of a namespace in the value field and then click on a namespace name in the dropdown list.

Each namespace name is followed by the name of the owning tenant in parentheses.

Security

UID2

is
is not
greater than
less than

Integer greater than or equal to 0 (zero)

This is the POSIX user ID of the object owner.

GID2

is
is not
greater than
less than

Integer greater than or equal to 0 (zero)

This is the POSIX ID of the owning group for the object.

Permissions2

is
is not
greater than
less than

Octal number greater than or equal to 0 (zero)3

Dates

Retention4

is value
is not value
is date
is not date
before date
after date

Deletion Prohibited
Expired
Not Expired
Specified date5
Selected date

Retention Class

is
is not
contains
does not contain

Part or all of a retention class name

Ingest Time

is
is not
before
after

Specified date5
Selected date
$now

Change Time2

is
is not
before
after

Specified date5
Selected date
$now

Modification Time2

is
is not
before
after

Specified date5
Selected date
$now

Access Time2

is
is not
before
after

Specified date5
Selected date
$now

Miscellaneous

Size

is
is not
greater than
less than

Object size, in bytes

This is the exact size of the object content. For example, to search for a two KB object, you need to specify 2048, not 2000.

Retention Hold

is
is not

Held

Shredding

is
is not

Shred on Delete

Hash

is
is not

Cryptographic hash value for an object

Language

is
is not

Selected language

Character Set

contains
does not contain

Part or all of the name of the character set or encoding used in the documentor unknown

Use unknown for documents for which HCP cannot determine the character set.

Email

Email To

contains
does not contain

Part or all of an email recipient name

Email From

contains
does not contain

Part or all of an email sender name

Email CC

contains
does not contain

Part or all of an email cc name

Email BCC

contains
does not contain

Part or all of an email bcc name

Email Subject

contains
does not contain

Part or all of an email subject

Email Sent Date

is
is not
before
after

Specified date5
Selected date
$now

Email Message ID

contains
does not contain

Part or all of an email message ID

Email Attachment Name

contains
does not contain

Part or all of the name of a file attached to an email
Documents

Author

contains
does not contain

Part or all of a document author’s name

Subject

contains
does not contain

Part or all of a document subject

Title

contains
does not contain

Part or all of a document title

Category

contains
does not contain

Part or all of a document category name

1. Search terms in structured searches cannot include Boolean operators. For more information on specifying search terms, see Search terms

2. This property applies only to objects in the default namespace.

3. For information on octal values for permissions, see Understanding returned metadata.

4. For information on retention settings, see Retention settings.

5. For valid date formats, see Specifying dates. For information on the different metadata time properties, see Understanding returned metadata.

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