Search Syntax in Nx Witness

This article details the search field characteristics of Nx Desktop, Nx Server, and Nx Cloud. The search syntax is generally the same across all of our resources, but additional search features are available in a few places. 

The standard search syntax includes the following:

• Single word search (not case-sensitive)
• Two word search (not case-sensitive and the search terms’ order does not matter)

Search fields that use the standard search syntax:

Nx Server

• Web Admin

Nx Desktop

• Resource Tree
• Event Rules (Indexed field: Source)
  Note: Events with more than one camera set will show up in your search results if one of the cameras match the search term, but the exact camera name will not be visible until you click on the list of cameras for that event.
• Event Log (Indexed field: Description)
• Cameras list (Indexed fields: Name, Vendor, Model, Firmware, IP, and MAC address)
• Audit Trail (Indexed fields: Camera name, User, IP, Activity, Description, Session ends)

Nx Cloud

• Systems
• Supported IP Video Devices
• Integrations

Search fields that have an exception or additional search features:

Nx Desktop

• User Manual (the screenshots below are from the updated User Manual in Nx Desktop version 4.2.0.33117 and newer)
  • Two word search terms will provide results for both search terms together and separately.
    

• An asterisk (*) can be used in any position to any number of symbols.
  
• A question mark (?) can be used to substitute a single character.
  
• A hyphen (-) can be used in front of the second search term to search for lines that contain the first term but not the second term.
  
• User Management
  • Unlike two-word searches across our other resources, only results matching the search terms' exact order will show up.

• A question mark can be used to substitute a single character.
• An asterisk can be used in any position to any number of symbols.
• Bookmark Log - (Indexed fields: Name, Description, and Tags)
  • Quotations can be used to find results with the search terms in the order specified.

• Notification Panel - Bookmarks tab (Indexed fields: Name, Description, and Tags) and Objects tab (Indexed fields: Object type and Object text attributes)
  • Quotations can be used to find results with the search terms in the order specified.

Questions

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