Search
Best practices for how to use Search within Secoda
Search is super important to Secoda users and we are constantly improving the functionality to provide the best experience.
You can search for any data resource using Secoda's search, including tables, columns, collections, dictionary terms, documents, and questions. You can search for terms in plain language, or by the table name and data source if you already know what you're looking for.
When you first click into Search, it'll show your workspace's Popular resources as well as your personal Recent searches.
You can also search directly from the Home page, within the Catalog, or by typing / from any screen.
You are able to save search filters so that you can easily go back to common searches. These can be either personal to you, or at the Team level.
- 1.Click into Search and click the filters icon next to Relevance
- 2.Click + Create new view
- 3.Title the filter view, add which filters you'd like, and set the Team visibility
- Note: If you leave the "Team visibility" section blank, these will only be saved to your personal space
Check out the video below for a step by step walkthrough!
Searching and filtering within the Catalog can be helpful when identifying resources that have not been documented. To filter for undocumented resources:
- 1.Click into Catalog
- 2.Click into the metadata that you'd like to filter for, for example Description
- 3.Check off "Blank" to show resources with no description filled out
Filter for no Description
In this same view, you can order your results by any metadata including Title, Database, Last Updated Date etc. Simply click the arrows next to the metadata you'd like to order by.
Order Catalog results
Searching can be daunting if you’re not sure exactly what you’re looking for. We’ve tried to make it as seamless as possible by adding features to help filter down your search.
The Secoda AI Assistant improves user experience when searching for resources. Once you’ve enabled it, you can find the AI Assistant on the lefthand panel under Search. You can also Ask AI right from the main Search. This feature will be helpful for business users who might not know where to begin when looking at data. Read more about it here.
You’re able to sort by Relevance, Popularity, Last modified and Date created.
- Relevance is measured by your personal usage (tables, dashboards, docs that you’ve worked on and are relevant to you)
- Popularity is measured by how often a resource is clicked into in your workspace as well as how often it’s queried outside of the workspace (Read more about this Popularity)
- Last modified will show you the most recently updated resources
- Date created will show you the most recently created resources
If you know what kind of resource you are searching for, you can filter down to that type in the All filter dropdown. There you will see every type of resources from Apps to Questions.
You can get even more granular with filters in the Add filter section. For example, if you are looking for all resources containing PII tags, this feature allows you to filter down your results.
The view filter allows you to toggle on/off the different kinds of information related to the results from your search.
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