Help:Special:SearchByProperty

SearchByProperty is a special page that allows to search the wiki by properties or property value combinations. This special page was introduced in. Substantial improvements of the user interface and its behaviour were introduced with .CiteRef::gh:smw:537

It provides a simple search form for finding semantic backlinks. Users may use it in two ways:
 * 1) Enter a property name assisted by autocompletion on existing properties to get a list of all values stored with the particular property
 * 2) Enter a property name and a target value to get a list of all pages that have that property with that value.

This service is directly accessible through the link within the factbox (see example at the bottom of this page) or on  (see this example).

If you search for a property of, or , and there are only few results, the nearest results will be shown as well. This can be adjusted by changing the setting for in your "LocalSettings.php" file.

Since the search form is using autocompletion for search suggestions on properties is using the property lookup cache for performance reasons which is governed by.