From my current trial and error experience with Domino 7.0.3 FP1 on Linux it appears, that there is a hard limit of 512 characters for the query. To save valuable space here, it seems even more advisable to use the square bracket syntax instead of the "FIELD" keyword.
Furthermore, according to Andre Guirard, "CONTAINS" does exactly the same thing as "=", so "=" is shorter is better. There is no syntax for "exactly equals".
To save some more space, you can make use of the fact that no blanks are needed before and after brackets (except for readability). The "minified" version of the second example above would look like
area?SearchView&Query=url AND NOT[Keywords]=url
Doesn't make much of a difference here, but as soon as you start to provide a user configurable search using this technique, 512 characters turn out to be pretty limiting.
From my current trial and error experience with Domino 7.0.3 FP1 on Linux it appears, that there is a hard limit of 512 characters for the query. To save valuable space here, it seems even more advisable to use the square bracket syntax instead of the "FIELD" keyword.
Furthermore, according to Andre Guirard, "CONTAINS" does exactly the same thing as "=", so "=" is shorter is better. There is no syntax for "exactly equals".
To save some more space, you can make use of the fact that no blanks are needed before and after brackets (except for readability). The "minified" version of the second example above would look like
area?SearchView&Query=url AND NOT[Keywords]=url
Doesn't make much of a difference here, but as soon as you start to provide a user configurable search using this technique, 512 characters turn out to be pretty limiting.