how to search for 3 names using dtsearch

If your file is named Sundance_Film_Festival.docx, you can search for any of the words Sundance, Film or Festival and you will get your document. If you are using all other versions of SharePoint, underscores ARE a valid word breaker.If your file is named Sundance_Film_Festival.docx and you search for the word Film, you will not find your document. If you are using SharePoint Foundation, underscores are NOT a valid word breaker.The answer is that everyone is right - at least some of the time!

So, I ran some controlled tests to find out. Searching on the internet gave very mixed messages as well. About half the people I asked told me definitively that it was not a valid word breaker, and half said that they were pretty sure that it was. I spent the better part of two days asking every SharePoint MVP and expert I could find at the conference whether or not the underscore was a valid word breaker. I recommend underscores over dashes '-' or hyphens because dashes often cause wrapping issues when a long hyperlink is sent in an email message. That comment made me very nervous because in this blog and in pretty much every governance plan I've written, I've recommended that you use the underscore in file names to avoid the %20 issue in hyperlinks. During one of the sessions, a presenter advised the audience to never use an underscore '_' character in file names because, if you do, SharePoint search won't be able to distinguish the individual words - so you won't be able to find your content. Last week, I was at the SPTech Con conference in Boston. And, in the context of information literacy, teaching people how to fish means teaching people how to search. But, to paraphrase a common expression, it's not just about having all your fish tagged so that they can be found, it's still about teaching people how to fish.

We often talk about metadata as the key to improving findability.

Improving 'findability' is a key outcome goal for most SharePoint deployments. I'm on a mission - I want to make sure that all SharePoint guidance (or the other G-word, governance) plans include training about a key information literacy skill: the ability to execute an effective online search.

How to search for 3 names using dtsearch