Find files with the multifunctional search

The full text search finds the exact result for your search term. You can look for individual terms but also make complex, compound queries.

Refine the search with placeholders

The search function accepts the placeholder * (star) for any amount of letters and the placeholder ? (question mark) for an individual letter.

Examples for placeholders:

• House* – words such as House, Household, Houseboat, etc. are accepted
• ?ouse – words such as House, Mouse, Louse, etc. are accepted
• *ouse – the same words as for ?ouse, but also words like Grouse, Blouse, Warehouse, etc. are accepted

Combine with operators

Search terms can be combined by means of the three operators AND, OR and NOT. There are several synonyms for these operators:

Useful operators:

• AND, &
• OR, |
• NOT, !

More combination options

The combination of search terms is largely based on regular linguistic phrasing. You can use commas as separators for a list of terms and insert an operator in front of the last term only.

For example, the phrasing “House, Building or Construction” is equivalent to the search “House OR Building OR Construction”.  If an operator is missing, the AND operator is used. Thus, the phrasing “Berlin, Wall, Graffiti” corresponds to the search “Berlin AND Wall AND Graffiti”.

You can use parentheses for partial expressions. Parentheses may also be nested. Any kind of complex search query is thus possible, if required.

Examples for combinations:

• House and tree
• House or building or construction
• House, building or construction
• House, tree and sun
• House, tree and sun or sunset
• (House, tree and sun) or sunset
• house, tree and (sun or sunset)
• Berlin and not wall
• Berlin & !wall
• Berlin and not (wall, parliament or November)
• Berlin and wall
• Berlin, wall
• Berlin & wall

Automatic operator selection

If the operator itself is to be searched, you can enclose it in double "" quotes.

Examples for automatic operators:

• For Better “Or” For Worse

Using color search you can look for images with one or more dominant colors.

Here you can select up to three colors and Manja will supply you the images matching the given colors, sorted by relevance.

The search variant by color can also be combined with the full text search as well as with the search in categories.

In the advanced search options category, options specifically matched to the contents of the database can be stored.

For example

selection by

●   author,
●   series
●   special keywords
●   date taken
●   color mode
●   file type
●   etc.

The options available are configured within the Administration.

Files can be cataloged via categories by subjects or other criteria. You can define one or several category trees (for example “departments” and “topics”).

The individual files can (but don’t have to) be arranged into the respective trees.

Search process in categories

In order to find all files of a category, you simply click on the appropriate category, without starting a search beforehand.

In order to limit the search results to one category, you click on that category and then use the fulltext search. Or vice versa: first start a fulltext search, and then select the category on that you want to restrict the search results.

Next to the category, the total number of files in the respective category is shown in blue and bold. After a search, the number of hits applying to your query is shown in grey and normal text.

Display in categories according to permissions

In any case, only those files are shown that you are authorized to access. If you have just guest or limited access, then please request expanded access privileges from your contact person.

Frequently used, recurring or important search words can be placed below the navigation bar as so-called tags for quick access. Clicking on the tag creates a search, which shows up-to-date, appropriate results.

In order to create or edit tags Administrator privileges are required.

You can find more information about this in Manja: Administration -> Settings, Texts, Formats -> Settings

Click on the small arrow icon below the search input field to open list search.

Now enter each search term on a separate line and all terms will be searched for at the same time.