Custom Search Fields allow you to search for your keywords within multiple document fields at the same time, and allows you to narrow your search to specific document fields within an article. These include headline, lead paragraph, descriptors, and source name.
You may have up to 25 custom search field lists and each can have a name of up to 25 characters. Each Custom Search Fields list can have up to 30 document fields selected. The following table explains what each available field contains.
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CUSTOM SEARCH FIELDS IN FACTIVA.COM |
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Field Name |
Field Tag |
Description |
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Accession number |
AN |
Unique number assigned to document |
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Author |
BY |
Author's name |
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Art |
ART |
Captions, descriptions of graphics, etc. |
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Column |
CLM |
Column name |
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Contact |
CT |
Contract name for additional information |
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Correction |
CX |
Area to describe or append corrections |
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Credit |
CR |
Credit information |
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Descriptors* |
DE |
All descriptors |
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Dow Jones ticker symbol* |
CO |
Company ticker symbol |
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Edition |
ED |
Edition of publication |
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Factiva company codes** |
FDS |
Factiva company codes |
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Headline |
HD |
Headline |
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Headline group |
HL |
Includes HD, SE, CLM |
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Headline/lead paragraph group |
HLP |
Includes HD, SE, CLM, LP, CX |
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Industry code |
IN |
Industry codes |
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Language code |
LA |
Document language |
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Lead paragraphs |
LP |
First two paragraphs of a story |
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Page |
PG |
Page of a publication |
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Publisher name |
PUB |
Publisher of a publication |
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Notes/reference |
RF |
Notes associated with an article |
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Region code |
RE |
Geographic region codes |
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Reuters instrument code* |
RIC |
Reuters codes |
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Section |
SE |
Section name |
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Source restrictor code |
RST |
Publication source code |
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Source group restrictor code |
RST |
Publication group code |
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Source name |
SN |
Publication name |
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Subject code |
NS |
Subject codes |
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Text |
TD |
Text of article after lead paragraphs |
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Volume |
VOL |
Volume and/or number of publication |
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Word count |
WC |
All words found in the headline and text groups |
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Group name |
NGC |
Publication group name |
* Searchable fields, but not displayable fields in articles; limited to supplemental descriptive terms provided by some information providers. Note DE= is not recommended as a stand-alone search.
** Factiva company codes are searchable using the fds field tag, but are displayed in the CO field.
Notes:
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If you select a Custom Search Fields format that contains only one field name, you will not need to use the related field tag. For example, if you select a Custom Search Fields format to search in only the Author field, you will not need to use BY= in front of the author's name.
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Your search strategy will continue to work if it contains sc=, the previously used source code field tag. But please be aware that rst= will appear in the free text search box whenever you add sources or Factiva Intelligent IndexingTM using the blue arrow icon to the right of each source or indexing term.