AaronW
社区Manager

Global Search: Helping You Find What You Need

Remember that song, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For?”

It’s a great song, but the Anaplan Community team wants to make sure that it’s not the soundtrack for your experience with Anaplan content.

Meet our powerful Global Search tool and learn how to put it to work for you.

It’s a federated search engine, which means that it searches all of Anaplan’s online content hubs. That includes the社区,Anaplan.com, andAnapedia, our comprehensive source for product documentation.

In addition to that, the new search is machine learning–enabled, so it gets smarter each time you use it, offering all users better and more relevant results every day.

借助您这样强大的工具,我们想提供一些技巧和窍门,以使您充分利用Anaplan社区全球搜索。

Filters

One of the most visible changes is the addition of search filters, which allow you to quickly refine your search results and help you locate exactly what you need. The number next to each filter tells you how many different pieces of content are categorized within that particular filter. These filters can be used individually or can be stacked, allowing for a level of granularity that is as broad or as specific as you need.2018-04-11_10-27-35.png

Source

The Source filter allows you to choose which of Anaplan’s content hubs you wish to see results from:社区,Anapedia,Anaplan.com, or any combination of the three.

例如,如果您正在搜索有关即将到来的用户组聚会的信息,则可能需要将结果限制在社区中。但是,如果您想了解有关特定计算功能的更多信息,则可能希望将结果完善为Anapedia。

社区Types

The Community Types filter will narrow your search results based on the type of content you wish to see. This includes high-level content types likeArticles,Blogs, orForums, as well as more specific types likeTraining信息,Videos,Groups, and even individualUsers.

主题

The主题过滤器将在社区和Anapedia的主要主题领域中完善搜索结果,例如Data Integration,Administration and Security, orCalculation Functions. This is particularly useful when searching for information related to specific elements of the Anaplan platform.

分类和显示

There are a few options available for customizing how your search results appear on the page.
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Listview sorts results in a single vertical column.2018-04-11_10-50-15.png
Card
view sorts results in a grid format.

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You can also sort results by relevance to the search query, or by date (either newest to oldest or oldest to newest, by toggling the
日期button more than once).

At the bottom of the search page is an option to adjust how many results appear on a single page.

Icons, Statistics, and Quick View

Each search result includes icons to provide at-a-glance information about the result’s source and type.

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There are also content statistics that, depending on the content type, may include information about the content’s date of creation (or of the most recent update), location, and viewing trends.

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所有结果(用户结果除外)包括Quick Viewoption to allow you to preview the result without leaving your search page.

Go Find It!

No matter what you want to know, we want to make sure that you can find it. The Global Search function is a huge part of that goal and a critical element of user experience, especially as the Community continues to grow.

请在社区@anaplan.com智慧h questions, concerns, or just to let us know what you think!

3 REPLIES3
largencharge
新贡献者

Nice!

usman.zia
Master Anaplanner/Community Boss

The global search is a great development of the community platform!

Loving the new icons and statisitics! As soons as everyone sees this post navigation will become a lot clearer!

Is it worth having the page as blog post so it can be viewed on the homepage?

KayneSchwarz
社区Manager

@usman.zia,

Good idea here! This post is actually from before the redesign, but most of it still applies to the search experience here. We'll make sure this content is up-to-date, and then give it another push for those new to the Community.

Thanks again!