SAP Landscape Management 3.0, Enterprise Edition

Search Operators and Wildcards for Local Searches

To meet your specific requirements, you refine your local search with search operators and wildcards.

Local Search Operators
Symbol Example Description

"<search query>"

"NetWeaver ABAP 7.40"

Finds the exact word or phrase within the quotes. The example shown finds all values that contain the exact character string “NetWeaver ABAP 7.40”.

AND

  • central AND instance

  • "central" AND "instance"

  • central instance

If there is no operator between two terms, the AND operator is used.

The AND operator finds content where both terms exist. The examples shown find the same result.

OR

ABAP OR Java

The OR operator finds content where either of the terms exist.

NOT

instance NOT database

The NOT operator excludes results that contain the term after NOT.

*

  • t*t

  • BWP*

  • "BWP"*

  • *pool

Replaces a group of characters.

If the term ends with it, the content must start with this term.

If term starts with it, the content must end with this term.

  • t*t would return results such as test, talent, or troubleshoot

  • "BWP"* would return results such as BWP system or BWP pool

  • *pool would return results such as Production pool, Development pool, or Quality pool

?

te?t

Replaces one character.

The example shown finds all terms that match the pattern, such as test or text.

>=, >, =, <=, <

  • >=20

  • >=100 <10

  • =74

  • >10 NOT =74

Finds the values that satisfy the comparison operator.

Works only with columns or properties that contain numeric values.

  • >= 20 means all values from 20 and above

  • >=100 <10 means all values from 100 and above AND all values from 9 and below

  • = 74 means 74 only

  • >10 NOT = 74 means all values from 11 to 73 AND all values from 75 upwards.