less than, before

The symbol for the less than operator is <. It specifies that the value of the property stored in the FileNet library must be less than the comparison value that you enter in the search condition. It excludes documents where the property value matches the comparison value. That is, if you enter a condition such as

name < Brown

you will get all values that precede Brown alphabetically (in ASCII order), but you will not get the value Brown.

When you search on a date property in an IDM Image Services library, the less than operator appears in grid view as "before."