The above search box is always available at the top of every page in the app. You can start a new search and quickly find the information that you are looking for.
See Recent Rows and Searches
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See your recent searches and recently accessed rows when you select the search box. Before you start typing in the search box, you'll see information pop-up that helps you complete your search. Up to three recent search terms appear at the top, based on the last three search queries that you viewed the results for. These recent search terms are personalized and based on your device and browser. The recent search terms are followed by up to seven of the rows you recently accessed. If you frequently access a small number of rows, you can quickly get to them from here. Recently accessed rows are independent of tables that have been indexed for Dataverse search, because no search has been performed yet. The rows are also grouped by table type, which lets you quickly scan the list. |
Inline Suggestions
As you start entering text, you'll see suggested results that help minimize keystrokes and simplify page navigation.
Suggestions are shown when three or more characters are entered in the search box, and are based on two types of matching:
- Word completion: Rows where the primary field contains a word that begins with the search term.
- Fuzzy search: Terms that are misspelled by one character are matched. For example, entering winry will show the account Coho Winery, among other results.
Search Results Page
View the full results for a search by pressing Enter on your keyboard or selecting Show more results. Search will append "*" to the search if two or less characters are entered.
Search results are ranked based on relevance and grouped by tables. The list of tables that include rows that match the search term are displayed horizontally as tabs along the top of the screen.
To understand why a row appears in your search results, hover over the icon at the beginning of each row to see the text that matched your search.
Top Results Tab
The Top results tab displays the top 20 results for the search term, with results grouped by table type. Each group shows results for a table in a grid that has up to six columns. The columns are the first six columns of the table's View columns quick find view.
Table-specific Tabs
Tabs for the specific tables that contain search results are displayed horizontally. The exact order of the tables from left to right (in a left-to-right environment) is based on the relevance of the results. You can collapse the filter panel or hover over the list of tabs to scroll horizontally.
Filters
Open the Filters panel in the top right to see a selection of filter parameters that you can apply to narrow down the search.
Working With Operators
Boolean operators:
Search on a combination of terms using the + operator, which performs an AND search and shows results containing all the individual terms separated by +.
Similarly, the OR operator can be indicated by separating terms with a vertical bar (|).
Use the NOT operator with a hyphen (-) before a keyword to indicate that it should be excluded from results (e.g. searching for evaluation + -agreed will match all rows that contain the term 'evaluation' but not the term 'agreed').
Wildcards:
Using an asterisk (*) at the beginning or end of a keyword makes the asterisk a placeholder for zero or more characters.
Exact matches:
Use double quotation marks around a keyword to perform an exact match.