Advanced search

General notes

In addition to quick search, Cinnamon allows you to build complex searches accessing all configured index fields and using AND and OR operators. Also, advanced search allows you to use negations, searches for fields having any value and combinations of the two.

Using advanced search

Creating a saved search object

Searches are typically collected in the folder Saved searches which is an ordinary folder. Therefore, you can create subfolders to organize your search objects, assign permissions to subfolders and objects to restrict other users from using or even seeing your searches or link your searches elsewhere. You can place search objects anywhere else in the folder structure, but we recommend to collect your searches in the Saved searches folder. If you need to find the search in another location, we recommend using links.

First, create a new search object in the Saved searches folder:

• Right-click the Saved searches folder and select New object without content.
• In the New object dialog, set the values as follows:
  • Specify a name according to your requirements.
  • Choose the object type Search.
  • Leaving the language value on the default value (Multi-language) does not affect the function of the search object, but you might want to choose (No language) instead which describes the language of the object more correctly.