Search for Document author

[H08590]

When I copy an article to MS Word, when I save the document there is a place to include the author's name. See picture. When I use XYplorer I can't seem to find a way to search using the author's name. The name isn't a tag; it isn't a label, and it isn't in the contents. How should be doing this?

[bdeshi]

"Author" is a special property of files and XY has special syntax for these. You need to enter this into the searchbox:

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prop:*Authors:searchString

You can also try this: go to configuration-> file info tips, look up the index number of Authors in the list. On my system it's 20. So I'll use the following to search by authors:

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prop:#20:SammaySarkar

For more information, enter this in the addressbar:

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::help "idh_find.htm#idh_findfilesbyproperties";

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[Stef123]

This reminds me of a search I did a few weeks ago, my search for author worked, but I did not manage to concatenate several authors or use OR

Nor was I able to use wildcards to accommodate for different spellings. (I did not try RegEx, though)
Because that's when I mostly need it, not for my own files (same author property anyway), but in a multi-user environment. Could I use Custom Columns for that? Instead of using wildcards.

How would I search if I don't know the correct spelling of the author's name?

[H08590]

Perfect. Thank you.