Search

Overview

With Jostle Search, you can find anything on your platform quickly and efficiently. Search can be found at the top of the Main Navigation.

Table of Contents

1. Starting your Search
2. Search results
3. Discussions Search
4. Query language

Starting your Search

Begin your Search by typing something into the Search bar. As you type, you’ll see auto-suggested results. Pressing ‘Enter’ on your keyboard, the blue Search icon, or clicking a suggestion in the dropdown will load the top results.

Search results

Results will first load from across your platform.

Click a view-specific button under the search bar to see all results in that view. Change the view by selecting another view button. 

Discussions Search

Search Discussions by title

To search for a specific Discussion by title, navigate to the Discussions results for your search and click the checkbox to “Only search titles of Discussions.” 

Search within a Discussion 

To search comments within a specific Discussion, find your discussion and click on the action to “Search all results in this Discussion.”

This will open a search bar for that Discussion. Input your specific terms to continue your search. 

Query language

Jostle Search supports basic query language functionality. This includes:

• “ “ which gives an exact match to the terms specified inside
  
• + which acts as the AND operator
• +- which omits terms  
• | which acts as the OR operator
• ( ) which groups search criteria together

“ “ exact match operator results

The “ ” operator in a search query finds results that contain the exact phrase within the quotes, in that specific order.

For example, searching “employee handbook” will show results only for: “Employee handbook”

+ and operator results 

The + operator in a search helps narrow down results by ensuring that the word specified must appear in the search results.

For example, searching “january + town + meeting” will show results that contain all of: “January” AND “town” AND “meeting”

+- omit operator results

The +- operator in a search query excludes the words from the search results, helping to filter out unwanted information.

For example, searching “sapphire +-beta” will omit results that contain “beta” 

| or operator results

The | operator in a search allows you to find results that include either one word or another, broadening the search to include multiple options.​

Note: If query language is not used in a search, the default is to search with “or” (ie, the search will return results that include any of the words you type). 

For example, using | will return results that contain: “policy” OR “update” OR “CRB” 

( ) operator results (groups search criteria together)

The ( ) operator groups words inside parentheses to control how they’re searched. 

For example, using the ( ) operator will search results that contain: “handbook AND employee” OR “meeting AND employee”

Query language examples

Below are some examples of how query language is applied