Entering a value into a field on the search form will return all
experiments that match that value.
Text Fields
Text fields such as Institution and Funding Program
will match
any experiments that contain the text you enter. For example,
"univer" will match "University of Ohio" and "New Mexico State
University".
You can negate the results (show all experiments which don't match) by
using an exclamation point. For example, specifying "!south" for the
Name field will return all experiments that do not have the word
"south" in their title.
Use an asterisk (*) to include a text field in the results no matter
what value it has.
Like the Numeric Fields, you can also use operators like
>, <, >=, etc. Please look at the Operators
section below for more information.
Checkboxed Fields
Fields with checkboxes will match any of the values you select. As an
example, you can check "Yes" in the Experiment Completed field
to return all experiments that have been completed. Selecting both
"Yes" and "No" will return all experiments that are completed or not.
Numeric & Date Fields
For numeric an date fields, this search page also supports using
operators to help refine your search.
These operators are: >, <, >=, <=, !=, ..., and !..
There is also a special asterisk operator, "*", that is described
below.
| > |
Returns experiments where the field is greater than the
supplied value.
Example: Start Date ">2014-01-01" selects all experiments
that begin after January 1, 2014.
|
| < |
Returns experiments where the field is less than the supplied
value.
Example: "<74.5" selects all experiments where the
field is less than 74.5.
|
| >= |
Selects experiments where the field is greater than or equal
to the supplied value.
Example: ">=50" selects all experiments where the
field is greater than or equal to 50.
Example: Name ">=t" selects all experiments
that start with the letter "T" or a greater alphabetic character.
|
| <= |
Returns experiments where the field is less than or equal to
the supplied value.
Example: End Date "<=2013-02-15" selects all
experiments that end on or before February 2, 2013.
|
| != |
Selects experiments where the field does not equal the supplied
value.
Example: !=17
|
| ... |
Returns experiments where the value of the field is between
the supplied values.
Example: 2009-01-01...2009-12-31
Example: Name "ab...cd" will return experiments
that have names that start with letters between
"AB" and "CD", alphabetically.
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| !.. |
Selects experiments where the value of the field is not within
the range. The smaller value should be on the left side of the
operator, and the larger on the right. This is correct: 2!..10,
but this is not: 10!..2
Example: Latitude "-66!..66" will select all experiments
that are near the poles.
|
| * |
Include this field in the search results, but don't filter any
values for it.
|
The search will normally only return the fields that you have
entered values for in the search form, and the experiment name.
If, for example, you only supply
a start date of ">=2010-01-01" to select all experiments that start on
January 1st, 2010, the search results will only contain the name of the
experiment and the start date.
If you wanted to see the end dates in addition, you can enter an
asterisk "*" into the end date.
