I have around 50 lotus notes databases which I need to search through (including RTFs and attachments) based on a rather complicated query (for example: If customer = a or b or c or d or e ... or z & product = x or y) then == match; and a tag to (e.g. tag = found or not found)
However, I wasn't sure the best way to go about this and wanted to check three options.
Using Lotus' 'Search in View' should, after indexing, search all the databases - however I am unsure if it will accept a long, complicated search query
Coding an agent in Lotus SCRIPT to basically perform the search in 1. but this might be a way of getting it to accept a complicated query
Using external software (e.g. X1 Professional Search) to search outside of Lotus Notes (however I am not sure if I will be able to tag the files if I identify them in windows explorer).
Edit: My idea is:
Sub Initialise
Dim session as New NotesSession
Dim db as NotesDatabase
Dim dc as NotesDocumentCollection
Dim doc as NotesDocument
Dim searcy_query$
'On current database
Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
'Force index of database
Call db.UpdateFTIndex(True)
'Construct QUERY
search_query = "(Customer1|Customer2) & (Product1|Product2)"
'Search
Set dc = db.FTSearch(query, 0)
If dc.Count=0 Then
Msgbox "No matches!"
Exit Sub
End If
‘Tag the matched documents with “Flag”
Call dc.StampAll("Flag","Active)")
End Sub
However, I am not sure if this will return all matches and also regarding @TRIM and @UPPER (where to put them into the query as I will be searching all fields and RTFs rather than specific ones)