Help:Screen:AdvancedSearch
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The Advanced Search page contains the following sections:
- Title Search
- Author Search
- Publication Search
- Publication Search by External Identifier
- User Search
- Notes Search
- Web Page Search
The first three share the same interface: up to three search terms which can be joined using "AND" or "OR". For each term the user can specify one of the following matching criteria:
- "is exactly"
- "is not exactly"
- "contains"
- "does not contain"
- "starts with"
- "ends with"
Selecting certain search criteria in the left column restricts the choices in the right column to a drop-down list. For example, selecting "Juvenile" or "Non-Genre" in the left column of the Advanced Title Search section results in the right column values being restricted to "Yes" and "No".
"Publication Search by External Identifier" takes the name of an external identifier type and an ID. It then looks for all publications that share that ID.
"User Search" takes the name of one ISFDB user and looks for that user name in the database. If found, it displays the user's moderator flag ("yes" or "no") and the user's last activity date. The latter is the last date when the user edited the database, edited the ISFDB Wiki or verified a publication.
"Notes Search" lets you search the Note fields of all ISFDB records for an arbitrary value. It's the only way to search the Note fields of ISFDB records other than Author, Title and Publication. This search also examines the Synopsis field of Title records.
"Web Page Search" lets you search the Web Page fields of all ISFDB records for an arbitrary value. It's the only way to search the Web Page fields of ISFDB records other than Author and Title.