The Search Editor's main view is a panel with two tabs: Input and Output. 

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Input

The Input  tab deals with creating, deleting, and updating Filters for a search. 

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Output

The Output tab deals with creating, deleting, and updating the output from a search.

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This small section's purpose is to explain, that these concepts might be called something different elsewhere in the documentation.

"searchField" → Filter.

"searchFields" → Group.

"valueHandler" → "Comparison Type". 

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