Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

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Conventions

This section uses the following conventions:

UCMDB refers to the Universal Configuration Management database itself. Universal CMDB refers to the application.
UCMDB elements and method arguments are spelled in the case in which they are specified in the schema. An element or argument to a method is not capitalized. For example, a relation is an element of type Relation passed to a method.

For full documentation on the request and response structures, refer to the UCMDB Web Service API Reference. These files are located in the following folder:

<UCMDB root directory>\UCMDBServer\deploy\ucmdb-docs\docs\eng\APIs\CMDB_Schema\webframe.html

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