Advanced Search

Snowray provides an advanced search option for SNOMED CT, which can be invoked by pressing theadvanced filter icon in the search bar. This enables users to specify additional criteria to restrict their searches.

Advanced Search Filter

Field	Description
Status	Filter for active or inactive concepts
Module	Return concepts that are associated with the selected module
Namespace	Filter for concepts within the selected namespace
Ancestor	Return all child concepts of the selected concept
Active member of	Filter for concepts that are present in the selected resource
Definition status	Return either defined or primitive concepts only
Effective time	Search concepts by their release date

The filters above are dropdowns, while the ECL filter requires typing in a valid query. A content assist, which can be activated by pressing Ctrl + Space , helps users to construct ECL queries easily.

Active members of a resource will only be detected correctly after the resource is synchronized, i.e. it is either released or exported to RF2.