The Conflict feature is only as powerful as the search criteria entered by the user; if search criteria are entered incorrectly, an important result may be overlooked. However, if search criteria are too general, the user is left to wade through irrelevant matches that do not apply to the task. The following will describe the proper usage of basic English Boolean operators, which may be used to increase the precision of conflict searches to render specific and accurate results.
Basic searches include searching for names and phrases and may include the operators: OR, AND, AND NOT.