Content Component 25.4
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# Query

Allows you to submit a natural language, Boolean, bracketed Boolean, keyword, field, or fuzzy query to the Content component.

You must specify query syntax by setting Text or FieldText, or both.

## Example

    http://12.3.4.56:9100/action=Query&Text=Gene analysis discovered methods to determine the exact sequence of nucleotides that compose a specific gene

This action requests documents that are conceptually similar to the specified text.

## Required Parameters

You must set at least one of the following parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
FieldText | Add a field restriction to the query.
Text | The query text.

## Optional Parameters

This action accepts the following optional parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
Abridged | (Internal parameter) Whether to send abridged results to the DAH.
AbsWeight | Use absolute weights, rather than percentage relevance.
AgentBooleanField | A field that contains Boolean agent expressions.
AgentParamsField | A field that contains extra query parameters for AgentBoolean queries.
AgentSecurityField | A field that contains the SecurityInfo for secure documents in AgentBoolean queries.
AnyLanguage | Allows Content to return documents in any language.
AutoPhrase | Applies automatic phrase quotations to all terms in the query text before sentence-breaking, N-gram breaking, or decomposition.
CaseSensitive | Determines the case sensitivity of field specifiers.
Characters | The number of characters that a summary can contain.
Cluster | Clusters the results that Content returns.
ClusterThreshold | The percentage relevance that documents must have to each other to be grouped in a cluster.
ClusterTitleLength | The maximum number of characters in a cluster title.
Combine | Combine results that derive from the same source.
CombineNumber | Increases the number of results that the action returns, if you set Combine to `FieldCheck`, or to a reference field.
CustomWeight | Whether to use your custom term weight file, if one exists.
DAHEndState | Define the range of results to return in a batch.
DAHStartState | Returns results in batches.
DatabaseMatch | The database to retrieve results from.
DefaultOperator | The default operator to use between query terms in the text.
DetectLanguageType | Detect the correct language type of the text.
DontMatchID | Document IDs for documents that you do not want to return.
DontMatchReference | References for documents that you do not want to return.
EndTag | The end HTML tag to apply to highlighted terms.
FieldCheck | Match results that have a specified value in a FieldCheckType field.
FieldRecurse | Returns the chain of values in a document ReferenceMemoryMappedType field.
FieldRestriction | Restrict the query terms to a field.
FieldText | Add a field restriction to the query.
FieldTextField | A field that contains a FieldText expression to use.
HardFieldRestriction | Specifies that the fields in FieldRestriction are the only fields allowed in the matching process for both FieldText and Text.
Highlight | Whether to highlight link terms or sentences in the results.
HighlightTagTerm | Adds an attribute to the StartTag to indicate the term that is highlighted.
IgnoreSpecials | Ignore certain special characters.
IRS | Send the query to an instant response server (IRS).
LanguageType | The language type of the query text.
LinkFieldText | The `FieldText` expression to match in the linked documents when FieldText contains an expression with the LINK field specifier.
MatchAllTerms | Whether to return only results that match all query terms.
MatchEncoding | The encoding that a document must have to return.
MatchID | Document IDs for documents that you want to return.
MatchLanguage | The language that a document must have to return.
MatchLanguageType | The language type that a document must have to return.
MatchReference | Document references that can return.
MaxDate | The maximum creation date that a document can have to return.
MaxID | The highest document ID to return.
MaxLinksPerTerm | Reduce the maximum occurrence of each term for categorization.
MaxPrintChars | The maximum number of characters to print in fields.
MaxQueryTerms | The maximum number of terms to use in the query.
MaxResults | The maximum number of results to print.
MaxScore | The maximum score that results can obtain.
MinDate | The minimum creation date that a document can have to return.
MinID | The minimum document ID to list.
MinLinks | The minimum number of links in results documents.
MinScore | The minimum score that results must have.
MinTermLength | The minimum length that a term can have after stemming.
MultiStage | Use multistage query for the DAH.
MultiStageInfo | The VDBs to use for the multistage query.
MultiStageMinResults | The minimum number of results to return in the multistage query.
MultiStagePageBackward | Page backward in the multistage query.
MultiStageStartState | The start state for the multistage query.
MultiStageTotalStages | The total number of stages for the multistage query.
OutputEncoding | The encoding to convert the results to.
PageInfo | Whether to return the page numbers of pages that contain the query terms, within each result document.
PerformanceAnalysis | Return query performance information.
Predict | Whether to predict the total number of results.
Print | Defines the fields to display.
PrintEngine | Whether to display information about the DAH child servers that results come from.
PrintFields | Overrides fields that display by default.
QuerySummary | Return a summary of the best terms and phrases in the results.
QuerySummaryAdvanced | Whether to enable the advanced algorithm for query summaries, for Dynamic Summaries and Automatic Query Guidance.
QuerySummaryIDs | Whether to include the IDs of parent documents for query summary phrases in the response.
QuerySummaryLength | The maximum number of best terms to use in a query summary.
QuerySummaryMaxDocLength | The maximum number of characters in each document to use to generate a query summary.
QuerySummaryNumbers | Whether to allow numeric and alphanumeric values in query summaries.
QuerySummaryPhraseLength | The maximum number of terms to include in each query summary phrase.
QuerySummaryPlus | Whether to enable the `QuerySummaryPlus` algorithm for query summaries.
QuerySummaryStopPhraseMode | Disable the configured QuerySummaryStopPhraseMode.
QuerySummaryTerms | The number of terms to use to generate a query summary.
QuerySummaryWhiteListMode | Disable the configured QuerySummaryWhiteListMode.
ReferenceField | Restricts the DontMatchReference and MatchReference parameters to the specified reference field.
SecurityInfo | The security details.
Sentences | The number of sentences that the summary can contain.
ShowReasons | Whether to include details of the matching words and phrases in a result.
SingleMatch | Return a single result.
Sort | The display order to use for results.
SourceFields | A list of fields to use to generate a QuerySummary.
Spellcheck | Checks the spelling of terms in the Text.
Start | Print results from this position onwards.
StartTag | The opening HTML tag to apply to highlighted terms.
StateDontMatchID | The state token of a group of documents to not return.
StateMatchID | The state token of a group of documents to return.
StateMatchOriginalSection | Whether to return only sections from a state token that were matched in the original query.
Stemming | Whether to use stemming for advanced search.
StoredStateDetail | Return `Engine` and `EngineIndex` elements for result documents, as well as child server details.
StoredStateField | The field that contains reference values to use to create the state token.
StoredStateTokenLifetime | The length of time to keep the stored state token.
StoreState | Whether to store results in a state token.
Summary | The type of summary to return with the results.
Synchronous | Whether to run the action synchronously or asynchronously.
Synonym | Whether to run a synonym query.
Text | The query text.
TextParse | The format of the Text.
TimeoutMS | The period after which the action times out.
TotalCharacters | The total number of characters to use for a RAG summary (see Summary).
TotalResults | Displays the total number of results found.
UserMetaFields | Creates a new metafield by performing a mathematical operation on document fields.
VectorMetadata | Whether to return vector metadata in a `VECTOR` query (see Vector Search)
WeighFieldText | Adjusts results relevance according to FieldText matching.
XMLMeta | Whether to return additional metadata for each result.

This action accepts the following standard ACI action parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
ActionID | A string to use to identify an ACI action.
FileName | The file to write output to.
ForceTemplateRefresh | Forces the server to load the template from disk.
Output | Writes output to a file.
ResponseFormat | The format of the action output.
Template | The template to use for the action output.
TemplateParamCSVs | A list of variables to use for the specified template.

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Content Component 25.4

Topic Title: Query