Return results where search term is a folder name or in file path

[Leah Ford]

Hi - I'm wondering how I can return results for file paths or folder names that include my search term.

For example if I search the term "chemical A" I'd like to return results like

.../user/chemicals/chemical-A/...

and

.../user/chemicals/chemical-A/img-001.png

Currently, neither the folder Chemical-A nor img-001.png show up in my results.

Thanks!

[Dat Nguyen]

I think this happening by default.  When you search for a term, it will search for that term in the file's path as well.  So if you store a file named X under a file named Y, and then search for the term "Y", the file named X will come up even though Y is no where in its content or name.  It works most of the time, but the behavior seems a bit unpredictable.  

I really want to search for terms in the path name as well. 

-Dat

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[FoxTrot Engineering]

Leah Ford wrote:

>Hi - I'm wondering how I can return results for file paths or folder names
>that include my search term.

The parent folder name (but not higher parent folders in the path) is indexed as a metadata. With FoxTrot Pro, you can search:
[any metadata or filename] [includes consecutive words] [chemical A]
This should find any file in a folder whose name contains "chemical A", but will also find files whose name or maybe some other metadata attribute contains "chemical A".
You can add a second criterion:
[filename] [does not include consecutive words] [chemical A]
to remove those containing the string in the filename.

>Currently, neither the folder Chemical-A nor img-001.png show up in my
>results.

Maybe the relevance slider (i.e. "1,000 most relevant items), or another categorization filter, prevent them to be shown?


Jérôme - CTM Engineering


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