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Using advanced search on your dashboard

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You can access the Advanced Search feature from your site's Dashboard or Pages section. With this feature, you can filter search results using various criteria to find content with specific characteristics.

Advanced search on dashboard

Advanced Search can help you perform administrative tasks, such as checking what content needs an update, assigning or changing page ownership, and checking what content is in a workflow.

The available search filters are:

Item name Use this field to search for pages or files of a specific name. Please note that this search field is not based on synonyms; for example, searching for "trash" will not return "waste collection".
Author Use this field to search for pages published or checked out by a particular user.
Page owner

Use this field to search for pages a specific user owns. A Page owner is a user who created the page or has been assigned as the Page owner and may differ from the Author.

Note: review and deactivation notices are sent to the Page owner, so it's best to ensure that all pages have an owner. If a staff member leaves your organization, make sure you reassign their pages to a different user.

Item status

Use this dropdown menu to filter pages based on status, such as WIP, Published, or Archived. You can also filter by approval status if you have access to any workflow groups. You can select multiple options from this menu.

Note: in this instance, Published refers to any page that has been approved to go live, and will include all pages with a Deactivated or Rolled Back status.

Item type

Use this dropdown menu to filter pages based on file or content type. You can make multiple selections on this menu.

This menu is most useful when used in conjunction with other filters. For example, you may need to search for annual events with an upcoming review date or change ownership of all park pages with an outgoing Page owner.

Review date

Use this field to search for pages by Review date. You can filter for pages with a review date before or after a specific date or search within a date range.

You can also enter a value in the Or Within [ ] Days field to search for upcoming review dates and search for previous dates by entering a negative number in the same field.

Deactivate date

Use this field to search for pages by Deactivate date. You can filter for pages with a deactivation date before or after a specific date or search within a date range.

You can also enter a value in the Or Within [ ] Days field to search for upcoming deactivation dates and search for previous dates by entering a negative number in the same field.

With no action over  Use this field to search for unpublished pages that have not been actioned in the specified number of days. This will return unpublished drafts or pages currently in a workflow without being accepted or rejected.
Only include

Use these checkboxes to search for pages that are:

  • Orphan Content: pages previously assigned to an owner who has been deactivated from the system. This is useful to ensure that all pages have an owner so that all review or deactivation notices get delivered to someone.
  • Unused Files: files uploaded to your Files Library but not being used anywhere on your site. This is useful when you need to clean up your Files Library and make it easier to navigate.

Actioning search results

There are several actions you can perform from your search results. Firstly, you can select a page or file to go to the page or file admin. However, you can also hover over a result with your cursor and select the cogwheel icon to display a menu of options or select each page you want to action by marking their checkbox and selecting an action from the Bulk Actions menu at the bottom of the screen.

The actions available are:

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