Search the Portal

Your Polarion portal may eventually host a large amount of content and finding what you want may necessitate using the portal search facility. Your starting point for content search is the search field in Navigation. Simply type in a word or phrase you want to search for. You can search Navigation content, current project content, and portal content.

You can restrict and refine your search results.

Start

Restrict search to content Type

Refine results

Navigation Content

When you begin typing a search term, the initial scope is Navigation. For example, if you type the word "Developer" and Navigation contains a page title Developer Guidelines and a Document title Developer Documentation, both these items appear as clickable labels in the Navigation panel. Essentially you are filtering Navigation for the search term.

You can restrict the Navigation search results to a specific content type:

  • Work Items

  • Documents

  • Pages

  • Test Runs

  • Attachments

Restricting a search to a content type is useful if your search term returns many items. Choosing one of the content types shown in Navigation when search is active limits the results to the selected type. Following the example above, if you type the word "Iterations" and select Documents, only the pages shown above in the Documents section of the search results page appear in the results.

Project Content

When you are working in a project, you can enter a search term in the Search field and press Enter or Return to search the project content. The search results appear in a results page, which is divided into sections for different content types, such as Work Items, Documents, Pages, and Test Runs.

The Search Results page has links that filter for specific content types or change the sort order of the results. All individual results are links that take you to the respective content.

Portal Content

There are several ways you can search the entire portal:

  • Open the Repository, enter a search term in Navigation, and press Enter or Return.

  • When working in a project, enter a search term in Navigation, hold Shift and press Enter or Return.

  • In the Search Results page of a project-scope search, click the Everywhere label to search the entire portal for the term used in the project-scope search.

Tip:

If you switch from a project to the repository or vice versa, the scope of the search for the current string changes according to where you are, but your search string remains in effect until you change it.

If you search for Attachments, the search results show the parent object such as a Work Item or Document that contains each found attachment. You can then download found attachments from the search results.