button
at the far end of the row, and then choose Before, After, On, Not before,
or Not after in the middle box.Advanced Search offers you the ability to run complex searches. You can search for people, entities, or documents and build searches with a variety of search terms using a combination of free text, fixed pull-down menus, and dates. You can choose to search on particular fields (e.g. Last name, Country, or Modified) and match the term with the field in a variety of ways. The records matching your search will be displayed in the Results list.
The Advanced Search page consists of:
the option to search for People, Entities, or Documents (at the top of the page)
the search rows where you build your search (the default is four rows)
the Search button for running your search (to the right of the search rows)
the option to match all or any of the rows (also to the right of the search rows)
buttons for adjusting the number of rows, resetting the page and accessing your saved searches. (below the search rows)
You can build advanced searches that use any number of rows, but often only one or two rows will be needed, in which case you can just ignore the other rows. Each row begins with a box where you can choose the field you want to search on from a pull-down list. The field you select in the first box determines what the rest of the search row looks like.
Before you construct your search, choose whether you want to search for People, Entities, or Documents. The specific search options available to you will depend on this choice.
You can search for people using one or more of the following search fields. Note that some of the search fields listed search more than one of the fields in an individual record, as indicated below.
Common fields – searches the following record fields: First name, Last name, Email, Email 2, Phone1, Phone2, Mobile, Department, Organisation, Street, City, Zip/Postal code, State/Province, Country
First name
Family name
Email – searches the record fields Email and Email2
Phone – searches the record fields Phone1, Phone2, and Mobile
Address – searches the record fields Department, Organisation, Street, City, Zip/Postal code, State/Province, and Country
City
Country
Primary entity
Reference centre
Role in entity
Role in entity type There are 12 types of entites in Archie: Centre, Centre branch, Field/Network, Field/Network sub-group, Methods Group, Other, Possibel Entity, Review Group, Secretariat, Steering Group, Steering Group Advisory Group and Steering Group Subgroup.
Document role
Group Author - search for Group Authors based on the roup Name
Group Author contatc -
Created
Modified
Notes - searches title and text of Notes
Is user
Last login
When you search for people using the search fields Any field, First name, Last name, Email, Phone, Address, City or Notes, you can enter a free-text search term into the far right box. In the middle box, you specify (using a pull-down list) whether you are looking for records where the search field Contains, Equals, Begins with, or Does not contain the text term you have entered.
Contains and Begins with are useful if you are unsure how to spell a search term.
When you search on Country, Primary entity, or Reference centre, you choose your search term from a pull-down list in the far right box and choose Is or Is not in the middle box.
When you search on Role in entity or Role in entity type, you choose from a pull-down list of entity roles (including Any role), together with a pull-down list of entities or entity types (including Any entity and Any entity type).
When you search on the date fields Created, Modified or Last login,
you can input the date for your search by using the button
at the far end of the row, and then choose Before, After, On, Not before,
or Not after in the middle box.
Tip: The difference between Before and Not after, and between After and Not before, is whether the date itself is included. For example, searching on records created After 1 January 2000 will only find records from 2 January onwards.
Finally, when you search on the field Is user, you simply choose Yes or No from a pull-down list.
You can search for entities using one or more of the following search fields:
Common fields – searches the following record fields: Name, Organisation, Department, Street, Zip, Region, Phone1, Phone2 City, and Country
Name
Type
Country
City
Contact person
Created
Modified
Registered
When you search for entities using the search fields Common fields, Name, City, or Contact person, you enter a free-text search term into the far right box. In the middle box, you specify (using a pull-down list) whether you are looking for records where the search field Contains, Equals, Begins with, or Does not contain the text term you have entered.
Tip: Contains and Begins with are useful if you are unsure how to spell a search term.
When you search on Type or Country, you choose your search term from a pull-down list in the far right box and choose Is or Is not in the middle box.
When you search on the date fields Created, Modified, or Registered,
you input the date for your search by using the button
at the far end of the row, and choose Before, After, On, Not before, or
Not after in the middle box.
Tip: The difference between Before and Not after, and between After and Not before, is whether the date itself is included. For example, searching on records created After 1 January 2000 will only find records from 2 January onwards.
You can use Advanced Search to search for all types of documents stored in Archie; both the Cochrane specific documents such as entity modules, protocols, and reviews; and also generic documents.
You can search for documents using the following search fields:
Common fields – searches the following record fields: Title and Text
Title
Text - the entire text of e.g., a module
Entity
Type
Person - identifies all documents for which the chosen person has any document role
Created
Modified
Publication status
Notes - searches title and text of Notes
The following fields only apply to documents of the Review type (i.e., titles, protocols and reviews):
Review Stage
Review Status
Review Phase
Review No
Last Substantive Update
Last Minor Update
Last Edited in RevMan
Title Registered
Title Assigned
Protocol Stage Reached
Review Stage Reached
Update Stage Reached
Next Stage Expected
When you search for documents using the search fields Common fields, Title, Text, Notes or Review No, you enter a free-text search term into the far right box. In the middle box, you specify (using a pull-down list) whether you are looking for records where the search field Contains, Equals, Begins with, or Does not contain the text term you have entered.
Tip: Contains and Begins with are useful if you are unsure how to spell a search term.
When you search on Entity, Type, Review Stage, Review Status or Review Phase, you choose your search term from a pull-down list in the far right box, and choose Is or Is not in the middle box.
Searching on the search field Person identifies all documents in relation
to which the specified person has any sort of document role (e.g., Editor,
Contact author, Co-author). Search for and select the person you want
using the 
button, and choose Is or Is not in middle box.
When you search on the date fields Created, Modified, Last Substantive
Update, Last Minor Update, Last Edited in RevMan, Title Registered, Title
Assigned, Protocol Stage Reached, Review Stage Reached, Update Stage Reached
or Next Stage Expected, you input the date for your search by using the
button
at the far end of the row, and choose Before, After, On, Not before, or
Not after in the middle box.
Tip: The difference between Before and Not after, and between After and Not before, is whether the date itself is included. For example, searching on records created After 1 January 2000 will only find records from 2 January onwards.
Choose whether you want to search for People, Entities, or Documents.
Choose the field to search from the pull-down list in the first box.
Choose how the search term should be compared to the field. The options here depend on the type of field you are searching (see above).
Enter your search term. The options here depend on the type of field you are searching in (see above).
If you need to search using multiple terms or fields, repeat steps 2 to 4 on the next row. If you need more rows, click More Rows and another search box will be added. To reduce the number of rows, click Fewer Rows.
If you have used more than one row, choose whether to Match all rows (AND) (the default) or Match any row (OR).
Click the Search button or press the Enter key.
Tip: Note that using the Match all rows option will often give no results if you combine searches in the same field. For example, not many people live both in one country "AND" another country at the same time.
Tip: If you have entered a search with multiple rows but wish to remove one of the rows from the search again, reset the row to be Any field Contains [blank]. This is the default for search rows and is always ignored.
Click the Reset button. This clears all search rows.
To find all authors in the Back Group
Choose to search for People.
In the first row, choose Role in entity Is Author in Back Group.
Click Search.
To find all reviews in the Back Group
Choose to search for Documents.
In the first search row, choose Type Is Cochrane Review.
In the second row, choose Entity Is Back Group.
Select Match all rows (AND).
Click Search.
Tip: Note that the document type Review includes both titles, protocols and reviews, and that they are all displayed with the label Review under Type on the Results page - but the icon before the title will show the stage. If you only wish to find full reviews, use the Review Stage option instead.
To find all Review Groups in Australia
Choose to search for Entities.
In the first row, choose Type Is Review Group.
In the second row, choose Country Is Australia.
Select Match all rows.
Click Search.
To find all Co-ordinating Editors in Australia
Choose to search for People.
In the first row, choose Role in entity Is Co-ordinating Editor in Any entity
In the second row, choose Country Is Australia.
Select Match all rows.
Click Search.
The My Searches... button lets you save and load searches.