Global search works on every page in Avaza. It finds projects and tasks, and also chat messages and task comments. If you can open the Contacts page, global search finds people and companies too.
The Advanced Search link in the search window opens this article. The second half of the article explains the search syntax.
Search from any page
Click the magnifying glass (Global Search) at the top right of any page. On a phone, open the menu and tap the magnifying glass next to the logo.
Type what you're looking for and press Enter. Search starts when you press Enter, not while you type.
Choose a tab to narrow the results: All, Projects, Tasks or Chat. People who manage contacts also see the tabs People and Companies. You can select more than one tab.
The All tab shows the first five matches in each group. To see every match in a group, click See all on that group. The group's tab opens, and you can scroll through all its matches.
To see the newest items first, change Sort by from Relevance to Date Created or Date Updated.
Click a result to open it. A task opens in its project. A chat message opens in Chat, and a task comment opens on its task. A person opens in Edit Team Member or Edit Contact. For a company, Avaza opens its Company Details.
Click Clear to empty the search box. Each time you open search, the search box is empty.
What search looks through
Tab | Finds | Matches on |
|---|---|---|
Projects | Active projects | Project title, project code, customer, project category and notes |
Tasks | Tasks in active projects | Task title, task ID, description, section, project and customer |
Chat | Direct messages, channel messages and task comments | The message, the channel name, and for task comments the task and project |
People | Team members and external contacts | Name, email, phone, mobile, position, company and tags |
Companies | The companies on your Contacts page | Name, address, phone, website and comments |
Search also looks through custom fields on projects, tasks, people and companies. In a text field it searches the text, and in a dropdown field the chosen option.
How your words are matched
When you type several words, Avaza looks for results that contain all of the words. The words can be in different fields. For example, Harbour Legal website finds a task called "Website refresh" in a Harbour Legal project. If no result contains every word, Avaza shows results that contain at least one of the words.
Capital letters don't matter in your search words.
Advanced search
Type these operators directly into the search box.
To find | Type | Result |
|---|---|---|
An exact phrase |
| The words together, in this order |
Words that start with some letters |
| design, designer, desk |
Words that end with some letters |
| branding, planning |
A word with a spelling mistake |
| management (one character may differ) |
Words close to each other |
| launch and plan within three words of each other |
Either word |
| Results with at least one of the words |
Both words |
| Results with both words |
One word but not another |
| Results with invoice but without draft |
A combination |
| Groups conditions with brackets |
A word that matters more |
| Results with launch rank higher when sorted by Relevance |
Write AND, OR and NOT in capital letters. You can also type invoice NOT draft instead of invoice -draft. You can use && for AND and || for OR. Use a plain minus sign with no space after it.
The number after ^ is called a boost. A boost can be a decimal number. You can also boost a phrase or a group in brackets, such as "launch plan"^2 or (logo OR banner)^0.5. A boost below 1 makes those words count for less.
Search one field
Type the field name, a colon and the word, with no spaces: projectTitle:website. For a phrase, use quotes: taskTitle:"launch plan". To search several fields, join them with AND: projectTitle:website AND taskTitle:logo. To find any of several words in one field, put OR inside brackets: taskTitle:(logo OR banner).
Type field names exactly as shown, including the capital letters.
Field | Searches |
|---|---|
| The project title. Finds the project, its tasks and their comments |
| The project code |
| The project category |
| Project notes |
| The customer of a project or task, or a company's name |
| The task title. Finds the task and its comments |
| The task ID |
| The task description |
| The section the task is in |
| The text of a chat message or task comment |
| The channel or conversation name |
| People |
| Companies |