Field Search
Search with field
Fess stores crawling data to each field, such as title and content, in the indexed document. Since some of fields are searchable, you can search documents by the field.
Available fields
The default searchable fields are below.
| Field name | Description |
| url | Crawled URL |
| host | Crawled host name |
| title | Title of document |
| content | Content of document |
| content_length | Document size |
| last_modified | Last modified time of document |
| mimetype | The MIME type of document |
Table: Searchable fields
For HTML document, title field is a value of title tag and content field is a value under body tag without tags.
Usage
The format of Field search is colon-separated query, such as fieldname:searchword. If field name is not specified, Fess searches documents in values of title and content field.
To search documents that contains “fess” in title field:
title:fess
To search documents that contains “fess” in url field:
url:"*fess*"