Global Search

The search bar in the top left of Platform allows you to search through all objects you have access to, filter results by type and author, and sort results by relevance, author and created date. Here are some tips for entering effective search queries:

• Always case insensitive
• OR logic by default
• Searches job names, script contents (up to 65K chars), author names
• The last word is tried as a prefix, allowing you to see results as you type
• Relevance sorting uses a score for each result calculated based on how similar the search query is to a result
• Terms are split only on whitespace, not punctuation, so try including punctuation (periods, underscores) when searching
• Best results occur when phrase is in its original order (up to 3 words out of order is OK)
• Include rare terms 
• Adding key words improves the relevance of the results (if sorting the results by relevance) but does not reduce the number of results 

Search Examples (sort by Relevance)

Job Name: Load from Foo to Redshift foo_bar_baz.contacts_new

• Working search: foo to redshift
• Because: exact phrase in order

• Working search: foo_bar_baz
• Because: the last search term uses a prefix match, which works against the beginning of the “foo_bar_baz.contacts_new” term

• Working search: foo_bar_baz.contacts_new to redshift
• Because: all terms in search are recognized individually in job name

• Non-working search: foo_bar_baz redshift
• Because: “foo_bar_baz” doesn’t match any word exactly in the job name and it’s not the last term in the search query