You may sometimes just want to look for other documents that are like an
interesting document you have already found. To perform a query by example search, you highlight information in a document you
To perform this type of search, you need a form set up by your application
administrator that allows you to select the Query By Example parser.
When you use a query-by-example search, you enter standard text in the query
field, rather than search terms and operators. (In fact, you cannot use Verity
Query Language, with its operators and modifiers, in a query-by-example search.)
For example:
When you find a document you like, consider how that document is relevant to
your needs. What words or phrases comprise a document you find interesting? If
you are not sure, think bigger. Are there particular sentences or paragraphs in
the document that make it interesting to you?
The query-by-example search works best when interesting words relevant to the
documents you want to find are present in the sentences or paragraphs you enter.
By default, common words (such as the and for) are stripped away, and the query is built based on the more significant
words (such as peace, negotiations, Middle, and East). Therefore, the results of a query-by-example search are likely to be less
precise than a full-text search.
Tip
Remember that a word may also be a
Query By Example