Given selection criteria for a document, returns all documents in a database that meet the criteria.

Defined in

NotesDatabase

Syntax

Set notesDocumentCollection = notesDatabase.Search( formula$, notesDateTime, maxDocs% )

Parameters

formula$

String. A Notes @function formula that defines the selection criteria.

A cutoff date. The method searches only documents created or modified since the cutoff date. Specify Nothing to indicate no cutoff date.

Integer. The maximum number of documents you want returned. Specify 0 to receive all matching documents.

notesDocumentCollection

NotesDocumentCollection. An unsorted collection of documents that match the selection criteria.

search method in Java Database class

EditSelectByDate @command in formula language

Example
See Also

NotesDateTime class
NotesDocumentCollection class

Glossary