Search examples

This topic explains how certain configuration settings can affect the search results.

Note The information in this topic is intended to:
  • Help Collibra Data Intelligence Platform administrators understand how the search configuration settings affect the search results.
  • Help other Collibra users understand why certain search queries might not provide the expected results.

For more information, go to the respective sections on customizing the search index, boosting, stop words, and the exact match features.

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Prerequisites

An asset named On The Go exists in your Collibra environment.

Search text

Enter the following search text: On The Go

Result

The asset On The Go is found.

Interpretation

In the following image, the word Go is shown in green. This indicates that Go is the word that produced a match. The words On The, which are shown in black, did not produce a match.

In the search results, the word that produced a match is shown in green. The words that did not produce a match are shown in black.

Furthermore, if you enter the search text On The, the asset On The Go or any other asset is not found. This is because "on" and "the" are stop words, which are filtered from indexing and searches.

Tip The best way to ensure thorough and intuitive search results is to name your assets, domains, and communities as thoughtfully as possible.

Search text

Enter the following search text: marketing team summit

Interpretation

The search engine interprets your search text as follows: "marketing" or "team" or "summit"

Result

Assets with the following names are found:

Note The order of the actual results may differ from the following order.

  • marketing team summit
  • marketing_campaign_august
  • team123
  • summit_planning
  • marketing_team_summit_august
  • marketingTeamSummit
  • marketing team summit August
Search text

Enter the following search text: MarketingTeam

Interpretation

The search engine interprets your search text as follows: "marketing" and "team"

Result

Assets with the following names are found:

  • MarketingTeam
  • marketingteam
  • marketing_team
  • marketing team summit
  • marketing_team_summit
  • marketing_team_summit_August
  • xyz marketing abc team def summit ghi

However, an asset with the following name is not found: team. This is because the search engine expects both the words ("marketing" and "team") in the name.

Image showing the search results when the search text contains CamelCase

Search text

Enter the following search text: marketing_team_summit

Interpretation

The search engine interprets your search text as follows: "marketing" and "team" and "summit"

Result

Assets with the following names are found:

  • marketing_team_summit
  • marketing team summit
  • MarketingTeamSummit
  • marketing_team_summit_August
  • xyz marketing abc team def summit ghi

However, asset with the following name is not found: marketingteamsummit. This is because the search engine treats marketingteamsummit as a single term.

An asset with the following name is also not found: marketing_team. This is because the search engine expects all the three words ("marketing" and "team" and "summit") in the name.

Image showing the search results when the search text contains underscores

Search text

Enter the following search text: team's calendar

Interpretation

The search engine interprets your search text as follows: "team" or "calendar"

Result

Assets with the following names are found:

  • Team's calendar
  • team123
  • weekly calendar
  • team_calendar_weekly
  • marketing team calendar

Search text

Enter the following search text: xyz/unified/solutions/data

Interpretation

The search engine interprets your search text as follows: "xyz" or "unified" or "solutions" or "data"

Result

Assets with the following names are found:

  • xyz/unified/solutions/data
  • xyz/unified/solutions/data/reports
  • unified solutions data
  • solutions data
  • unified solutions

Prerequisites

  • A resource, user, or user group with the name verylongname exists in your Collibra environment.
  • Edit the resource type boost factors in Collibra Settings as follows:
    • Asset: 2
    • Community: 4
    • Domain: 6
    • User: 8
    • User group: 10

Search text

Enter the following search text: verylongname

Result

The search results are ordered according to the boost factor values of the respective resource types. The user group resource type, with a boost factor of 10, is the most relevant of the results. Asset, with a boost factor of 2, is the least relevant resource type.

Prerequisites

  • The following assets exist in your Collibra environment:
    • An asset named superfeature
    • An asset named asset1, with the following tag: superfeature
    • An asset named asset2, with the following comment: superfeature
  • Edit the property boost factors in Collibra Settings as follows:
    • Name: 1
    • Comment: 5
    • Tag: 10

Search text

Enter the following search text: superfeature

Result

The search results are ordered according to the boost factor values of the respective fields. The tag field, with a boost factor of 10, is the most relevant of the results. Name, with a boost factor of 1, is the least relevant field.

Prerequisites

  • The following assets exist in your Collibra environment:
    • An asset with the description terminator
    • An asset with the definition terminator
    • An asset with the note definition
  • Edit the attribute boost factors in Collibra Settings as follows:
    • Description: 1
    • Definition: 2
    • Note: 3

Search text

Enter the following search text: terminator

Result

The search results are ordered according to the boost factor values of the respective attributes. The note attribute, with a boost factor of 3, is the most relevant of the results. Description, with a boost factor of 1, is the least relevant attribute.

Prerequisites

  • The following assets exist in your Collibra environment:
    • A Business Term asset with the name Payment
    • A Data Attribute asset with the name Payment Type
    • A Policy asset with the name Payments
  • Edit the attribute boost factors in Collibra Settings as follows:
    • Business Term: 3
    • Data Attribute: 2
    • Policy: 1.5

Search text

Enter the following search text: payment

Result

The search results are ordered according to the boost factor values of the respective asset types. The Business Term asset type, with a boost factor of 3, is the most relevant of the results. Policy, with a boost factor of 1.5, is the least relevant asset type.

Prerequisites

  • The following assets exist in your Collibra environment:
    • A Schema asset with the name Payment
    • A Business Term asset with the name Payment Type
    • A Data Attribute asset with the name Payment Type
    • A Policy asset with the name Payments
    • Other assets, as shown in the following image
  • Edit the asset type boost factors in Collibra Settings as follows:
    • Business Term: 3
    • Data Attribute: 2
    • Policy: 1.5

Search text

Enter the following search text: payment

Results

The resources that match the exact search text in the Name attribute of the resource are shown first. In this example, there is only one exact match—the Schema asset with the name Payment.

After the exact matches, the search results are sorted in order of descending relevance.

Prerequisites

  • Several assets, each with a variation of jedi in the name, exist in your Collibra environment.
  • Default boost factors for all resource types, properties, and attributes.

Search text

Enter the following search text: jedi

Result

The search results are ranked as shown in the following image. A combination of the total number of matches in a name and the percentage of matches per total words in a name affect relevance scoring of the results.