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Searching in Specific Index Fields - Lucene Query SyntaxSearching in Specific Index Fields - Lucene Query Syntax
If you would like to know which fields in Pure that are indexed and use it to search specifically, you can have a look at the field documentation. To find the field documentation navigate to the Administrator > Documentation > Field documentation and download this.
It is a spreadsheet that holds information on all types of content and their sub types in Pure - and there is a column indicating which of the fields are indexed.
The search works the same way independent on if you are searching in the Portal or from inside Pure. It is the same fields being searched in.
When you want to search within a specific field, always add first the carat ^ then the name of the field followed with semicolon:
^authors:
You can for example search specifically after an author like this:
^authors:Maltesen
This can also be read from the Field documentation, for example if you open the spreadsheet for Research outputs and look at the row Authors. Here you can see the cell in column 'Index fields' are marked with c, which means it is searchable, and the label authors, which means it can be used as a search code as in the above example.
As a result, for example:
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Published at April 09, 2025