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Searching for multimedia assets

From the Search page, you can search for multimedia assets such as videos or clips, Word documents, spreadsheets, HTML or PDF files, and so on. Enter words or phrases to describe the asset you want to find and click on the Search button. If you have the Folders view, you can click Folders to set up and use folders to organize assets.

Virage Solution Server searches all available text associated with the video, clip, or other document. If an asset has been uploaded to the solution server, the contents is indexed and is thus searchable. If a URL reference has been uploaded to the solution server, only the URL is referenced.
For example, you could search for a graphic file by entering any or all of the following terms in the Enter Keywords field:

• Title
• Category
• Description
• Author
• Keywords

• clip label
• video label
• closed caption, and so on

Here are some tips and options to fine tune your search:

• Search with word separators
• Search using a wildcard
• Search with case sensitivity
• Search for exact phrases
• Search for multiple keywords
• Use parentheses to group keywords
• Use a boolean search: AND, OR, NOT
  
  
• Troubleshooting tip
  
  

• Search with word separators

  You can use a space or a comma , as valid separators in a search. Try to avoid special characters such as the underscore, forward slash, backward slash, period and the ampersand characters, _ / \ . &.

• Search using a wildcard

  You can broaden a search to include plurals, adjectives, adverbs or conjugated words.
  
  Use an asterisk (*) anywhere in the word to replace an unlimited number of trailing characters. work* retrieves work, working, workload and so on.
  W*k retrieves work, walk, weak, week and so on.
  Use a question mark (?) to substitute for a single character.
  W?? retrieves war, wok and so on.
  • Note
    
    Try to avoid special characters such as the underscore, forward slash, backward slash or the ampersand characters, _ / \ & in the middle of a word when doing a wildcard search. You can use the period . in the middle of a word in a wildcard search. For example:
    M*ry.virage.com would be a valid search.

• Search with case sensitivity

  If you use lowercase or uppercase letters exclusively, the search finds any combination of UPPER and lowercase results. If you use mixed upper and lowercase letters, the search finds only exact matches.
  For example:
  If you search for HTML files on washington or WASHINGTON the search engine will find results with Washington, Washington, and WASHINGTON.
  If you search for HTML files on Washington the search engine will only find results with Washington.
  
  • Note
    
    Words are only highlighted if they match the query terms exactly. For example, if a search uses the term Hawaii, only those records that contain the exact word Hawaii are retrieved and highlighted.
  
  

• Search for exact phrases

  Use double quotes (" ") around several keywords to retrieve results where your keywords appear next to each other in order.
  For example: Search for videos on "Shakespeare in love" instead of Shakespeare in love to retrieve videos on the movie of that title.
  
  

• Search for multiple keywords

  When you use several keywords in your search, the search engine looks for assets that contain at least one of your keywords. In other words, if you search for multiple words separated by white space or a comma, the search engine searches for any one of the terms. This is equivalent to searching with the Boolean operator OR.
  To ensure that a specific term is always included in each of your results, search with the Boolean operator AND.
  
  For example: The query motion picture retrieves videos that contain motion, picture, or motion picture. The query motion AND picture retrieves clips or videos that contain both the word motion and the word picture.
  
  

• Use parentheses to designate logical groupings

  You can use parentheses to logically group Boolean statements.
  For example, dolphin and (fish or bluefin) would yield results that must contain dolphin, while the search for dolphin and fish or bluefin could contain a result that does not contain the word dolphin.
  
  

• Use a Boolean search: AND, OR, NOT

  You can create specific relationships among keywords or phrases using the OR, AND, or NOT operators. These operators are case insensitive. AND takes precedence.
  Use the NOT operator as follows: A NOT B.
  
  For example:
  The search Larry OR Moe AND Curly returns results that include Larry as well as assets that include Moe with Curly.
  
  The search (Larry OR Moe) AND Curly returns results that include (Larry with Curly) as well as those that include (Moe with Curly).
  
  The search Larry NOT (Curly and Moe) retrieves results that mention Larry but do not mention both Curly and Moe.
  
  The search for Larry NOT Moe returns results that mention Larry or those that do not mention Moe.
  
  You can use + or - in front of words to indicate AND or NOT respectively. There are some subtle distinctions between + and - and AND and NOT. For example:
  The search a +b -c is equivalent to the search b AND (A OR B) AND NOT C, rather than A AND B NOT C. .

• Troubleshooting Tip

  Some languages have difficulty with searches that involve long phrases and punctuation. Try your search with a shorter phrase and remove any punctuation.
  
  For example: Instead of searching for videos on Monsters, Inc. try a search on Monsters AND Inc to retrieve videos of the movie with that title.
  
  

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