| Parameter: | Description: | Default: | 
| "text" | Search term. Is a keyword search, literal search or regular expression search, depending on the typeparameter. SearchHelp has more | required | 
| search="text" | (Alternative to above) | N/A | 
| web="Name"
 web="Main, Know"
 web="all" | Comma-separated list of webs to search. The special word allmeans all webs that doe not have theNOSEARCHALLvariable set toonin their WebPreferences. You can specifically exclude webs from anallsearch using a minus sign - for example,web="all,-Secretweb". | Current web | 
| topic="WebPreferences"
 topic="*Bug" | Limit search to topics: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. | All topics in a web | 
| excludetopic="Web*"
 excludetopic="WebHome, WebChanges" | Exclude topics from search: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. | None | 
| type="keyword"
 type="literal"
 type="regex" | Do a keyword search like soap "web service" -shampoo; a literal search likeweb service; or RegularExpression search likesoap;web service;!shampoo | %SEARCHVAR- DEFAULTTYPE%preferences setting (literal) | 
| scope="topic"
 scope="text"
 scope="all" | Search topic name (title); the text (body) of topic; or all (both) | "text" | 
| order="topic"
 order="created"
 order="modified"
 order="editby"
 order="formfield(name)"
 | Sort the results of search by the topic names, topic creation time, last modified time, last editor, or named field of TWikiForms. The sorting is done web by web; in case you want to sort across webs, create a formatted table and sort it with TablePlugin's initsort | Sort by topic name | 
| limit="all"
 limit="16" | Limit the number of results returned. This is done after sorting if orderis specified | All results | 
| date="..." | limits the results to those pages with latest edit time in the given TimeInterval. | All results | 
| reverse="on" | Reverse the direction of the search | Ascending search | 
| casesensitive="on" | Case sensitive search | Ignore case | 
| bookview="on" | BookView search, e.g. show complete topic text | Show topic summary | 
| nonoise="on" | Shorthand for nosummary="on" nosearch="on" nototal="on" zeroresults="off" noheader="on" noempty="on" | Off | 
| nosummary="on" | Show topic title only | Show topic summary | 
| nosearch="on" | Suppress search string | Show search string | 
| noheader="on" | Suppress search header Topics: Changed: By:
 | Show search header | 
| nototal="on" | Do not show number of topics found | Show number | 
| zeroresults="off" | Suppress all output if there are no hits | zeroresults="on", displays: "Number of topics: 0" | 
| noempty="on" | Suppress results for webs that have no hits. | Show webs with no hits | 
| header="..."
 format="..." | Custom format results: see FormattedSearch for usage, variables & examples | Results in table | 
| expandvariables="on" | Expand variables before applying a FormattedSearch on a search hit. Useful to show the expanded text, e.g. to show the result of a SpreadSheetPlugin %CALC{}%instead of the formula | Raw text | 
| multiple="on" | Multiple hits per topic. Each hit can be formatted. The last token is used in case of a regular expression ";" and search | Only one hit per topic | 
| nofinalnewline="on" | If on, the search variable does not end in a line by itself. Any text continuing immediately after the search tag on the same line will be rendered as part of the table generated by the search, if appropriate. | off | 
| separator=", " | Line separator between hits | Newline "$n" |