Search brings communities, people, conversations, and shared work into one discovery experience. Each result opens where users can continue viewing or working with it.
Find What You Need
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One search home - Users can find spaces, posts, goals, events, and documents from one place. Shared messages, direct messages, and people are searchable too.
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Space discovery - Users can discover communities through Search, which now replaces the separate Spaces Explorer experience.
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Global or local - Users can search across Visual Space or stay within the current space. A space scope control appears when Search opens inside a space.
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Focused categories - Users can choose one content category or All, then sort results by best match, newest, or popular.
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Controls stay visible - The compact query bar and category, sorting, and time controls remain visible while users scroll through results.
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Useful time ranges - Results can cover all time, the past year, month, week, or the last 24 hours through Today.
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Search as you type - Results update shortly after users type, without needing a separate search button.
Results That Take You There
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Clearer result rows - Compact rows align titles, authors, excerpts, and previews so different kinds of results are easier to scan together.
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Results shown - On wide screens, a side panel groups the loaded results by category and shows how many are currently listed.
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Posts and articles - Results show titles, authors, space context, short excerpts, and a preview image when available.
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Goals and events - Goal rows show their workflow status, while event rows include dates, timing, and attendance details.
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Broader event discovery - Published events can appear across Visual Space, including events from spaces users have not joined.
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Documents and images - Users can find files, folders, and native documents by name or location, then open the matching item in Documents.
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Media discovery - Image matches include thumbnails. When several file matches are available, Search can show a media grid with a Show more media option.
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Conversation matches - Message results open the relevant shared or direct conversation with the matching message in context.
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Spaces and people - Space results lead into the selected community, while people results open the matching profile.
A Search That Stays With You
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Preserved progress - Search remembers the query, filters, scope, and loaded pages while users visit a result and return. Opened results are also marked for easier scanning.
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More as you scroll - Additional results load progressively, with a clear option to show more when another page is available.
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Clear feedback - Search shows focused loading, empty, and error states so users always know what is happening.
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Refresh your search - Run the query again to check for newer matches after content changes.
Privacy And Access
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Space permissions - Private space content only appears when the user belongs to the space and can read the relevant area.
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Private conversations - Direct-message results are limited to current participants and appear in global Search, outside individual space scopes.
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Visible result counts - Searches involving private content or conversations count the results available to the user.
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Community restrictions - Search excludes content from communities where the user has an active ban that prevents reading.
Goal Discovery
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Goal references - Message composers can find published goals by name or reference and link only goals available in a joined space.
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Goal board search - Users can narrow the current Goals board from its header, then clear the query to restore the full board.
Current Discovery Scope
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Practical discovery today - Search covers current community and content discovery, including older links that previously opened Spaces Explorer.
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Document search scope - Documents are found through their names and locations. Search does not look inside uploaded files or native document bodies.
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Navigator comes later - A visual knowledge map, semantic search, taxonomy graph, and guided learning paths are not part of this release.