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DISCO uses Westlaw- and Lexis-style search syntax with boolean search operators. Here are the basic search bar commands and operators.
Command Description Example Explanation
&, and Includes results with
both terms
contract & payment Documents containing both contract
and payment
[space], or Includes results with
either term
contract payment Documents containing the word contract
or payment
%, not Excludes term from results contract % payment Searches for documents with contract but
excludes all documents containing payment
/n Proximity search,
searching within n words
contract /10 payment Documents with contract and payment within
ten words of each other (in any order)
“ ” Exact phrase “contract payment” Documents containing the exact phrase
“contract payment”
! Truncation search
or root expander
contract! Searches for any term starting with contract,
including contract, contracts, contractual,
contracting, contracted
* Wildcard search
for single character
contract* Searches for words that have one, but only one,
character after contract, such as contracts, but
not contracted, contractual, or contract
~ Fuzzy or approximate
word search
guaranty~ Searches for guaranty, guarantee, garantee,
garanty, and similar (mis)spellings
( ) Grouping syntax (failure & consideration)
& (contract agreement)
Documents must contain both failure and
consideration, and must also contain either
contract or agreement
sample(n, search) Random search for either
n percent of results if n is
less than one, or random n
results if n is one or greater
sample(.5, contract);
sample (700, contract)
Randomly returns fifty percent and 700 of
search results for contract, respectively
field(terms) Field searching (see below
for standard DISCO fields)
custodian(Holcombe) Holcombe in the custodian field
Order of operations
1. Exact phrases: “ ”
2. Groupings: ( )
3. Proximity: /n
4. &, and, %, not
5. [space], or
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Standard document fields
Searches can be limited to search within the following fields, included below with search examples. Search queries that do not specify a field search document text, document notes, custodians, authors, subjects, to, from, cc, and bcc.
DISCO information Document fields Document attributes Document identification
tag(responsive) author(Jones) type(word) id(1200)
folder(“Hot Documents”) recipient(Thomas) 1 pagecount(1) batesnumber(Enron000009)
stage(“Privilege Review”) to(Smith) textlength(30000)2 batesprefix(Enron)
stagecomplete(“First Review”) from(Jones) filelength(25000) 3 ingestsessionid(IngestSessions/1)
redactionreason(“Privacy”) cc(Thomas) childcount(2) productions(productions/2)
documentnote(important) bcc(Frank) parentcount(1)
privilegenote(“Legal advice”) custodian(Peterson) conversationcount(5)
subject(meeting) path(“/root/sent/email.msg”)
text(Peter or angel) folderpath(“sent items”) 4
domain(winlaw.com) filename(“contract.docx”)
Date fields
Dates can be searched by date certain (12/10/2015); month and year (9/2016); or year (2012)
date( )5 alldates( ) createdate( ) familydate( )
lastmodifieddate( ) loaddate( ) receiveddate( ) senddate( )
Range searches
Use to to search a range for example: date(10/16/2015 to 12/10/2015)
id(…to…) date(...to...) batesnumber(…to…) childcount(…to…)
conversationcount(…to…) filelength(…to…) instancecount(…to…) pagecount(…to…)
parentcount(…to…) textlength(…to…)
All date field searches have the additional range options to search before or after a date.
date(before…) date(after…)
1 recipient( ) searches all to, cc,
and bcc fields.
2 textlength( ) refers to number
of characters, including spaces.
3 filelength( ) refers to file length
in bytes.
4 folderpath( ) refers to folder or
parent folder from which the
document was collected.
5 date( ) refers to sent date for
email or last modified date for
any other file.
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As the leading provider of software as a service solutions developed by lawyers for lawyers,
DISCO is reinventing legal technology to automate and simplify complex and error-prone
tasks that distract from practicing law. DISCO has been embraced by more than 400 law firms,
including 50 of the AmLaw 200, as their first choice for innovative technologies that help
great lawyers and their teams secure justice and win cases.
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Tag fields
Tagging decisions can also be searched by dates applied and users applying them, using the syntax below.
Syntax Description
tag(by [email protected]) All documents tagged by [email protected]
tag(responsive & by [email protected]) Documents tagged responsive by [email protected]
tag(non-responsive % by [email protected]) Documents tagged non-responsive by someone
other than [email protected]
sample(10, tag(by [email protected])) Ten random documents tagged by [email protected]
tag(by [email protected] & on 10/16/2015 Documents tagged by [email protected]
on 10/16/2015
tag(by [email protected] & after 10/16/2015) Documents tagged by [email protected] after
10/16/2015
tag(responsive & by [email protected]
& before 10/16/2015)
Documents tagged responsive by [email protected]
before 10/16/2015
True/false fields
Syntax Description
hasprivilege(true|false) true if document has at least one privilege tag
hasredaction(true|false) true if document is marked for redaction in DISCO
hasdocumentnote(true|false) true if document has a note
hasredactionreason(true|false) true if document has a reason for redaction
hasredactionwithoutreason(true|false) true if document is redacted without a stated reason
unfoldered(true|false) true if document is not in a folder
