tpalfy commented on a change in pull request #4123: NIFI-7188: Adding filter capabilities into search & prerequisite refactors URL: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/4123#discussion_r400921543
########## File path: nifi-docs/src/main/asciidoc/user-guide.adoc ########## @@ -167,6 +167,74 @@ contains options that allow you to manipulate existing components on the canvas: image::global-menu.png[NiFi Global Menu] +=== Keywords in searching + +NiFi UI's search functionality supports a number of "keywords". These are literals used to execute search based on non-textual information. A keyword is used only in case of the search term consists of a section of the keyword or matches with it. In case the keyword is only the subset of the search term, the keyword is not picked for usage. The keywords are case-insensitive. The supported keywords are the following: Review comment: I think these document sections should be worded as simply as possible. `literal` for example in the sense it is used here is a computer science specific expression and meant to be used for fixed values in the _source code_. In general it should read naturally for basically any user, here's a suggestion: ``` Users can use pre-defined (case-insensitive) keywords in the search box that will check certain conditions (instead of trying to match labels and values etc.). Keywords can be used with filters (see below) but not with other search terms (otherwise they won't be treated as keywords) and only one keyword can be used at a time. Note however that keywords will also be treated as general search terms at the same time. The supported keywords are the following: ``` ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] With regards, Apache Git Services
