| Syntax |
Plain English |
Explanation |
Example |
| Quotes (“ “) |
Exact Phrase |
Used to search for an exact phrase. Capitalization is not taken into account. |
Example: "John Smith" - Meaning: Contact contacts the exact phrase "John Smith" (case insensitive) somewhere in the record. Please note: all queries will stem unless a word or phrase is surrounded by quotations. For example, the query 'Steve "Smith"' would return results for both Steve Smith and Steven Smith but not Steve Smithwick. |
| AND |
And |
Used to search for a contact that contains all the terms in the query. AND must be used in all caps. |
Example: "John AND Smith" - Meaning: Contact contains both the words "John" and "Smith" somewhere in the record. Please note that AND is the default operator for searching multiple words or phrases in Contacts+ search, so it can be omitted in favor of simply writing both words or phrases in the query. |
| OR |
Or |
Search for contacts matching term A or term B. OR must be used in all caps. |
Example: "John OR Smith" - Meaning: Contact contains either the word "John" or "Smith" somewhere in the record. |
| NOT |
Not |
Search for contacts that specifically do not include the term. NOT must be used in all caps. |
Example: "NOT John" - Meaning: Contact does not contain the word "John" anywhere in the record.
Example: NOT tag:"friends" Robert. This will return a list of Roberts that do not have the tag "friends".
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| > < |
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Greater than/Less Than |
Example: "added:>YYYY-MM-DD" - Meaning: contact was added after YYYY-MM-DD. |
| given: |
Given Name |
Search for a given (first) name. |
Example: "first:John" - Meaning: Contacts that have John as the first/given name. |
| family: |
Family Name |
Search for a family (last) name. |
Example: "family:Smith" - Meaning: Contacts that have John as the last name/family name. |
| company: or organization: |
Company or Organization |
Search for contacts that have the search term as their current company/organization. |
Example: "company:Contacts+" or "organization:Contacts+" - Meaning: Contacts that have Contacts+ as the current company/organization. |
| title: |
Title |
Search for a matching title. |
Example: "title:CEO" - Meaning: Contacts that have CEO as their current title. |
| email: |
Email Address |
Search for matching email addresses. |
Example: "email:john@contactsplus.com" - Meaning: Contacts that include "john@contactsplus.com" as one of their email addresses. |
| domain: |
Email Domain |
Search for matching email domains. |
Example: "domain:contactsplus.com" - Meaning: Contacts that include "john@contactsplus.com" as one of their email addresses. |
| url: |
URL |
Search for matching URLs. |
Example: "url:https://www.contactsplus.com" - Meaning: Contacts that include a URL with "https://www.contactsplus.com" |
| created |
Created Date |
Search for contacts created before, after, or on a certain date (using the date format mm/dd/yyyy) |
Example: "created:>2014-09-12" - Meaning: Contacts that were created after September 12, 2014. |
| modified |
Modified Date |
Search for contacts modified before, after, or on a certain date (using the date format mm/dd/yyyy) |
Example: "modified:<2014-09-12" - Meaning: Contacts that were modified before September 12, 2014. |
| notes: |
Notes |
Search for words or phrases in the Notes field. |
Example: "Notre Dame" - Meaning: Contacts that have the word "Notre Dame" somewhere in the Notes field. |
| city: |
City |
Search for contacts with a specific city. |
Example: "city:Denver" - Meaning: Contacts that have the exact word "Denver" (case insensitive) as the city. |
| region: |
Region |
Search for contacts with a specific region. |
Example: "region:Colorado" - Meaning: Contacts that have the exact word "Colorado" (case insensitive) as the state. |
| country: |
Country |
Search for contacts with a specific country. |
Example: "state:United States" - Meaning: Contacts that have the exact word "United States" (case insensitive) as the country. |
| missing: |
Missing |
Search for contact missing a specific field. |
Example: "missing:email" - Meaning: Contacts that do not include an email address. Example: "missing:tag" Meaning: Contacts that do not have a tag. Example: "missing:phone" - Meaning: Contacts that do not have a phone number. |
| tag: |
Tag |
Search for contacts that have a specific tag. |
Example: tag:"family". This will return a list of contacts that have a tag of "family". |
| birthday: |
Birthday |
Search for contacts by birthday. |
Example: "Birthday: 03.1999"
Meaning: contacts with a birthday in March 1999
Searching by just the month or year will also work:
"birthday: 03" Meaning: all contacts that have a birthday in March
"birthday: 1999" Meaning: all contacts that have a birthday in year 1999
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| any: |
Any text anywhere in the contact |
Search for a specific text in all fields of all contacts. |
Example: "any: Creative"
Meaning: Contacts that have "Creative" in any of the fields apart from tags and relationships.
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