Use the Search Bar to Find Your Content

Use the search bar to search for the content you're interested in using search terms, content types, and search tags. If you've enabled GenAI services, you can use natural language to search for content and visualizations.

1. On your home page, type in a search term and either press Enter to search for content or Shift + Enter to visualize data.
   1. Specify the full or partial name of what you're looking for. The search is case-insensitive.
      
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   2. (Browser dependent) Click Dictate (if displayed) and speak your search term.
2. Type a question in natural language. For more information, see Generate Visualizations from Your Home Page.
3. If you've enabled GenAI services, ask follow up questions in natural language.
4. To display more information about the artifiacts, click Enable artifacts detail pane, then click search results to display more information about the artifacts.

Search Options

You can enter advanced search commands in the search bar to tailor your search results for exact matches, multi-term matches, and field-level matches.

You can combine multiple search terms with commands to narrow or widen your search. For example, name:(revenue AND Analysis). Search commands and search terms are case-insensitive.

Search Command	Description	Example
AND	Enter AND between search terms to only display content which contains all the search terms. All forms of AND, such as, and, &&, or entering two search terms together, will return the same results.	Revenue AND Forecast Revenue and Forecast Revenue && Forecast Revenue Forecast
OR	Enter OR between search terms to display content that contains any of the search terms.	Revenue OR Profit Revenue or Profit Revenue || Profit
NOT	After entering a search term, enter NOT followed by more search terms to exclude any content from the results which match the search terms entered after the NOT command.	Revenue NOT Product Revenue not Product
?	Enter the question mark (?) character in a search term as a wildcard to signify a single unknown character. This ensures that the search results include content with words matching the known characters from the search term. For example, searching for st?r would include results containing star and stir.	st?r
*	Enter the asterisk (*) character at the end of a partial search term or root word as a wildcard to find all content that contains the partial search term as well as content that contain variations of the root word. For example, searching for employ* would include results for employee, employment, or employer.	Employ*
name:	Enter name: followed by a search term to search for content where the search term is part of the Name field.	name:Revenue Analysis
description:	Enter description: followed by a search term to search for content where the search term is contained in the Description field of the content.	description:template desc:template
owner:	Enter owner: followed by a search term to search for content where the search term is contained in the Owner field of the content.	owner:Admin
columns:	Enter columns: followed by a search term to search for objects that reference columns matching the search term.	columns:product
text:	Enter text: at the beginning of a search followed by a search term to search for content where the search term is contained in any of the content's fields.	text:Revenue
""	Enclose a search term with double quotation marks to search for content that includes phrases or stop words which match the search term.	"Balance Letter" "Research by analysis"
\	Enter the escape character backward slash (\) before each special character (+ - & | ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \) in a search. For example, to search for revenue+city enter revenue\+city.	revenue\+city

Search Tips

Use these tips to help you find your content.

• Searching in Non-English Locales - When you enter criteria in the search field, what displays in the drop-down list of suggestions can differ depending upon your locale setting. For example, if you’re using an English locale and enter sales, then the drop-down list of suggestions contains items named sale and sales. However, if you’re using a non-English locale such as Korean and type sales, then the drop-down list of suggestions contains only items that are named sales and items such as sale aren’t included in the drop-down list of suggestions.
• Searching for New Objects and Data - If you create or save a workbook or create a dataset and then immediately try to search for it, then it’s likely that your search results won’t contain matches. If this happens, refresh your browser. If you still can't find the new object or data, then wait a few minutes for the indexing process to run, and retry your search. Users can access only the data they've been given permission to access.