Search Tips

FXhome uses a powerful search engine to help you locate the files you want. The information below will show you how to craft search queries which will return exactly what you are looking for.

Normally when you enter a series of words into the search box it will search for each word seperately. Therefore if you search for the words "Basic" and "Clash" it will find presets with names like "Energy Clash Basic" and "Basic Round Clash". If you want to search for an entire phrase instead then you can add quote marks (") round your search terms.

By default the preset search checks the every preset title for your search term and returns the values that match.

It's also possible to search on other preset properties by specifying the property name followed by a colon the followed by the search term.

[property name]:[search term]

The preset properties you can search are

• name
• overview
• desc
• keywords
• filename
• filesize
• aid - the authors user ID
• author
• downloads
• award - typically "Gold", "Silver" or "Bronze"
• date - the date the preset was added to the website

When you search for a word it will return all presets that have that word somewhere in the title. Sometimes you will want to find a preset by specifing the full title and want to ignore any presets with similar titles. To do this you can use exact matches by just adding a plus sign (+) before the term.

You can invert any search terms by adding an exclaimation mark (!) before them.

For number and date properties you can instruct the search to only show presets that are lesser or greater in value than your search term. You do this by adding a less than symbol (<) or greater than symbol (>) before your term. You can also add an equals symbol (=) afterwards to indicate "less than or equal" and "greater than or equal".

Selection matches allow you to specify a list of terms and the search will return presets that match any of them. Simply add a question mark symbol at the start and seperate your terms with with pipe symbols (|).

Putting together the techniques described above you can create some more advanced searches.