Searching from the Home Page

You can search all reports, explorations, and stored processes that are on the metadata server from the menu bar on the home page.

Search Field on the Menu Bar

The search field on the menu bar supports the following types of searches:

single-word
multiple-word
in-word wildcards
spaces in strings that use quotation marks (")
plus (+) and minus (-) syntax

The plus (+) and minus (-) are prefix operators. This means that the operator precedes the search term that is required or excluded rather than following it. For example:
- Using 2009 2010 2011 matches documents that contain any of the three terms.
- Using +2009 +2010 +2011 matches only documents that contain all three terms.
- Using 2009 2010 -2011 matches documents that contain 2009 or 2010 but only if they do not contain 2011.

Note: Single and multiple word searches that are plain text have a wildcard appended to them. For example, if you search for the word sample, then it is converted to sample*. This means that you get different results than if you entered “sample”, +sample, or *sample*.

The search field on the menu bar is not case sensitive.

Up to 5000 items can be returned in a single search. If your search exceeds 5000 items, then the first 5000 items appear and a message is displayed at the top of the window. The message tells you how many results matched your search and how many have been displayed. Narrowing your search using that search field enables the relevant search results to display. When you submit a new search using the menu bar that results in fewer than 5000 items, you can see all the search results.

Search results on the home page are not ranked. In the workspace, you can use the Sort by drop-down menu to specify that you want the list of items to sort by Alphabetical ascending, Alphabetical descending, Date ascending, or Date descending. The default is Alphabetical ascending.

Suppose that you search on the word sample. All objects that contain the word sample in the Type field are displayed in the workspace. Here is an example of the search results:

Search Results on the Home Page