Searching the site

Search the entire site for an item using the search field in the upper right corner of Management Portal. Once Mediasite retrieves your search results, you can then filter the results further. You can also use wildcards, operators, parentheses, and quotation marks to refine your search results.

Wildcards

* is the wildcard for multiple characters and is typically used at the end of a root word. For example, entering the search term presen* returns present, presentation, presenter, etc.

Operators

Use operators in conjunction with multiple search terms to make your search results more precise. Operators are case-sensitive.

 

Operator

Function

Example search string

Recommended use

AND

Find results containing both terms.

dog AND puppy

Use to search for two or more words within a single result. This will often narrow your search.

OR

Find results containing either term.

dog OR puppy

Use to search for synonyms.

NOT

Find results containing one term, but not the other.

dog NOT puppy

Use to exclude unwanted results.

+

The word which + precedes must be in the results; other terms will not be.

+dog house

Use to specify exact matches, while disregarding other results.

     AND is the default operator when you do a search query with multiple words and do not specify an operator.

Parentheses and quotation marks

Parentheses can be combined with operators to group terms into sub-queries. This can be useful for combining operators and organizing multiple keywords. Example: (dog OR cat) AND food will return results for both “dog food” and “cat food”.

Quotation marks can be used to get results containing an exact phrase. Word order is considered, and the full phrase must be present within a single field. For example, “Dog Training” will return results for “Daily Dog Training” or “Dog Training School.”

 

 

Example of search results at site level

Presentation filters

When you filter search results to include presentations only, there are additional filters:

Filter

Additional filters

Caption File Status

     Completed

     Pending

On-Demand File Status

     Completed

     Pending

     Error

Vodcast Status

     Completed

     Pending

Source

     Hardware Recorder

     Media Upload

     None

Primary Presenter

Filter by presenter name

Owner

Filter by owner name

Folder

Filter by folder name

Recorded

     Before Last Year

     Last Six Months

     Last Quarter

     Last Year

Last Watched

     Before Last Year

     Last Six Months

     Last Quarter

     Last Year

Created

     Before Last Year

     Last Six Months

     Last Quarter

     Last Year

Last Modified

     Before Last Year

     Last Six Months

     Last Quarter

     Last Year

     Last Two Weeks

     Last Week

 

Example of presentation search results with filters

     For additional advanced search functions, see KBA3731 on the Customer Care Portal at: www.sonicfoundry.com/support