Navigating and refining the search results

The Search page offers a variety of dynamically generated facets by which to navigate and refine your search results.

No. Part name Description
1 "Search in" facets

These facets enable you to navigate to resources via organizational path or resource category.

Facet

Use

Organization

Navigate to resources by drilling down at the organizational level and limiting the search results to a specific community, subcommunity or domain.

If, for example, you click on a root-level community, the results will be refined to include only the resources (meaning subcommunities, domains and assets) in that community that match your search text.

Category

Navigate to a specific category of resources, such as assets, communities, domains, users or user groups.

2 "Refine" facets

These facets act as filters to refine the search results.

The following table shows the packaged "refine" facets:

Filter criteria Use this to show only those search results...

Asset type

That are of a specified asset type, such as Business Term, Acronym, Column or Table.

This criterion is only applicable if you have selected the category Assets.

In the following example image, the search engine searches for your text only in assets of asset type Standard, Column and Data Set.

Status That have a specified status, such as Candidate, Accepted, Deployed or Rejected.

Last modified

That were modified within the specified time frame; within the last 24 hours, week, month or year.

Created by

That were created by the specified users.

Created on

That were created within the specified time frame; within the last 24 hours, week, month or year.

Tags

That have the specified tag(s).

You can click the tag in any of the search results, to search for all domains and assets with that tag.

Working with facets

Click Clear, to clear all selections for a specific facet type.

At the top of the page, click Clear all, to clear all facet type selections on the search page.

Click Show all, to show all the facets by which to refine the scope of your search for a particular facet type. As shown in the following example image, if there are more than 15 facets, the list will open in a dialog box.

Note Adding and removing facets on the search page is not the same as:

Permissions

No particular license is needed to create and manage search filters; however, certain global permissions are needed.

Permission With this permission, you can...
Manage and share anyone's Views, Dashboards, Search filters

Create and manage search filters for yourself and other users, and share with other users.

Manage your own Views, Dashboards, Search filters Create and manage your own search filters.

Share your own Views, Dashboards, Search filters

Share search filters that you created.

Note Users are not granted permissions directly, but through global roles and responsibilities.