Search Help Making queries

Using queries, you can find documents by searching for words and phrases in their contents. 

  • The simplest kind of query is a single word. For example, if you search for "operation," the "Search Service" returns all documents that contain the word "operation" in their contents.

Examples:

The following returns Documents containing the words ' wine', ' winery', ' wineries' and so forth

wine*

The following returns Documents containing the word 'santa' but not the word 'county'

santa not county

The following returns Documents containing the words 'santa' and 'county' or 'city'

santa and county or city

The following returns Documents where the words "programmer analyst' is near the word 'computer'

Programmer analyst near computer      

The following returns Documents where the word 'county' is near the word 'hearings'

county near hearings

The following returns Documents where the words 'board' and 'supervisors' are near 

(are within 50 words in the same Document) the word 'meetings'

board and supervisors near meetings

 

General rules for queries

The following rules apply to queries of all kinds:

  • Queries are not case sensitive.

  • You can search for any word except for words on the exception list. To view the exception list for American English, see your web administrator.

  • Date and time values are of the form   yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss   or   yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.  The first two characters of the year and the entire time can be omitted. If you omit the first two characters of the year, the date is interpreted as being between 1930 and 2029. A 3-digit millisecond value can be specified after the seconds value. All dates and times are in Coordinated Universal Time. For example, 1997/12/8 13:10:03:452

Notes

  • Dates and times relative to the current date and time can be expressed with a minus sign (-) followed by one or more integer unit and time unit pairs. Time units are expressed as: y  for years, q  for quarters (three months), m  for months, w  for weeks, d  for days, h  for hours, n  for minutes, and s  for seconds.

  • Numeric values can be in decimal or hexadecimal. Hexadecimal values are preceded by "0x."

 

Advanced Search

  • Check "Highlight" box to highlight search text in agenda and minutes documents.  Currently system does not highlight PDF documents.
  • You can search support material (PDF documents) for agenda and minutes by checking "Support Material" box.
  • Enter the date range, if you wish to filter the search result by date. 
  • Enter the maximum number of documents you wish to receive in "Maximum Records" box.
  • Time out is a time in seconds you wish to wait to retrieve result. Change the search text and/or date range to get faster results.