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  1. Preface
  2. Using Metadata Manager
  3. Viewing Metadata
  4. Searching Metadata
  5. Working with Shortcuts and Folders
  6. Editing Metadata
  7. Working with Data Lineage
  8. Sharing Metadata
  9. Business Glossaries
  10. Using the URL API
  11. Appendix A: Configure the Web Browser
  12. Appendix B: Glossary

Metadata Manager User Guide

Metadata Manager User Guide

Special Characters and Common Words

Special Characters and Common Words

Metadata Manager ignores special characters and common words when it indexes metadata.
For example, when Metadata Manager indexes the object name Products-Sales_Data, it ignores the dash as a special character, resulting in the term Products Sales_Data.
To use special characters in a search, use a backslash (
\
) before the special character. For example, to search for Products-Sales_Data, use the following syntax:
Products\-Sales_Data
Because Metadata Manager indexes a special character as a space, Metadata Manager returns objects with any special character in the same location. For example, if you search for Products\-Sales_Data, Metadata Manager returns any of the following objects:
Products-Sales_Data Products:Sales_Data Products!Sales_Data
Metadata Manager does not index the following special characters:
~
,
!
,
^
,
&&
,
*
,
( )
,
-
,
+
,
{ }
,
[ ]
,
||
,
\
,
:
,
"
,
?
, any single alphabetic character
a
-
z
or
A
-
Z
By default, Metadata Manager does not index the following common words:
a an and are as at be but by for if in into is it no not of on or such that the their then there these they this to was will with
Metadata Manager ignores the common words when you include them in the search criteria. You can customize the list of words to ignore in searches by updating following file:
<Informatica services installation directory>\services\shared\jars\pc\classes\stopwords.txt
For more information about the stopwords.txt file, see the
Metadata Manager Administrator Guide
.

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