Brand Portal search capability allows you to quickly search relevant assets using omnisearch, and facet search that uses filters to help you further narrow down your search. You can search assets at files or folder level and save your search results as smart collections.
Brand Portal does not support Collection search using omnisearch.
However, you can use search filters to get the list of relevant collections.
To search for assets on Brand Portal:
From the toolbar, click the Search icon, or press the “/” key to launch Omnisearch.
In the search box, type a keyword for the assets you want to search.
mountain biking
, omnisearch returns all assets in the search results that have both mountain
and biking
available in the metadata fields. For example, mountain
in the Title
field and biking
in the Description
field. Both the terms must be available in the metadata fields to display in the search results. However, omnisearch returns the asset in the search results even if only one of the two terms is available in Smart Tags metadata field. For example, if an asset contains mountain
as one of the Smart Tags and does not contain biking
in any other metadata field and you search for mountain biking
, omnisearch still returns the asset in the search results.Select from the related suggestions that appear in the drop-down list to quickly access relevant assets.
Asset search using omnisearch
To know about search behaviour with smart tagged assets, see understand search results and behavior.
Search facets in the Filters panel add granularity to your search experience and make the search functionality efficient. Search facets use multiple dimensions (predicates) that enable you to perform intricate searches. You can easily drill down to the desired level of detail for a more focused search.
For example, if you are looking for an image, you can choose whether you want a bitmap or a vector image. You can reduce the scope of search further by specifying the MIME type for the image in the File Type search facet. Similarly, when searching for documents, you can specify the format, for example, PDF or MS® Word format.
The Filters panel includes a few standard facets, such as- Path Browser, File Type, File Size, Status, and Orientation. However, you can add custom search facets or remove specific search facets from the Filters panel by adding or removing predicates in the underlying Search Form. See the list of the available and usable search predicates on Brand Portal.
To apply filters to your search, using the available search facets:
Click the overlay icon and select Filter.
From the Filters panel on the left, select the appropriate options to apply the relevant filters.
For example, use the following standard filters:
/content/dam/mac/<tenant-id>/
, which can be configured by editing the default search form.To non-admin users, Path Browser in Filter panel shows only the content structure of the folders (and their ancestor folders) shared with them.
To admin users, Path Browser allows navigating to any folder in Brand Portal.
You can use custom search facets in the Filters panel by editing the underlying Search Form.
Property Predicate if used in the search form, lets you search for assets that match a metadata property to which the predicate is mapped.
For example, if Property Predicate is mapped to jcr:content /metadata/dc:title
, you can search assets based on their title.
The Property Predicate supports text searches for:
Partial phrases
To allow the asset search using partial phrases in property predicate, enable the Partial Search checkbox in Search Form. This allows you to search for the desired assets even if you do not specify the exact words/ phrases used in the asset metadata.
Brand Portal supports the following fields for Partial Search:
You can:
dc:title
property), then all the assets with the word climb in their title phrase are returned.Non-case sensitive text
To allow non-case sensitive search in property predicate,enable the Ignore Case checkbox in Search Form. By default, the text search on property predicate is case-sensitive.
On selecting Partial Search checkbox, Ignore Case is selected by default.
The search results are displayed according to the filters applied, along with the search results count.
Asset search result with search result count.
You can easily navigate to an item from the search result, and return to the same search result using the back button in your browser without having to re-run the search query.
You can save the search settings as a smart collection to be able to quickly repeat the same search without having to redo the same settings later. However, you cannot apply search filters in a collection.
To save the search settings as a smart collection:
Tap/ click Save Smart Collection and provide a name for the smart collection.
To make the smart collection accessible to all users, select Public. A message confirms that the smart collection was created and added to the list of your saved searches.
Non-admin users can be restricted from making smart collections public, to avoid having a huge number of public smart collections created by non-admin users on organization’s Brand Portal. Organizations can disable the Allow public smart collections creation configuration from General settings available in admin tools panel.
To save the smart collection in a different name, and select or clear the Public checkbox, click Edit Smart Collection.
On the Edit Smart Collection dialog box, select Save As and enter a name for the smart collection. Click Save.
Omnisearch is not supported for collections. However, you can apply search filters to list the relevant collections from within the Collections interface.
From the Collections interface, click the overlay icon to open the filter panel in the left rail. Apply single or multiple search filters from the available filters (modified date
, access type
, and tags
). It lists the most relevant set of collections based on the applied filters.