About Searching from the Home Page

You can search all reports, explorations, stored processes, tables, and queries that are on the metadata server from the menu bar on the home page. The list of items that you can search for depends on the SAS products that your site has licensed.

The following fields in metadata are searched:

Comment Title
Comment Description
Created
Description
Keywords
Last Modified
Title

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 (+) sign and minus (-) sign are prefix operators. This means that the operator precedes the search term that is required or excluded, rather than following it. For example:
- Specifying 2012 2013 2014 matches documents that contain any of the three terms.
- Specifying +2012 +2013 +2014 matches only documents that contain all three terms.
- Specifying 2012 2013 -2014 matches documents that contain 2012 or 2013, but only if they do not contain 2014.

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 is not case sensitive.

Up to 5000 items can be returned in a single search. If your search results exceed 5000 items, then the first 5000 items appear, and a message is displayed at the top of the Search Results window. The message tells you how many results matched your search and how many have been displayed. Narrowing your search using the search field enables the relevant search results to be displayed. When you submit a new search that returns 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 list 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 for the word sample. All items that contain or start with the word sample are displayed in the workspace. (For example, an item that starts with samples is displayed.) Here is an example of the search results:

Search Results on the Home Page