Search

Search is the main non-Explorer entry point.

Use it when you know roughly what you need but not where it lives.

What Search covers

  • repository items by name, type, author, and folder scope
  • full-text content search
  • full-text result modes for documents or passages
  • provider-backed mail search when your deployment exposes connected mail search

Reliable search workflow

  1. Start with one stable term: an exact phrase, identifier, sender, or filename fragment.
  2. Narrow by item type or folder scope.
  3. If full-text results are noisy, switch from whole documents to passages.
  4. Open the result and verify the folder context before editing, moving, or sharing anything.

What Search is not for

  • deciding long-term ownership
  • replacing the folder tree for everyday navigation
  • hiding duplicate structures that governance should fix

Failure patterns

  • using Search as the only way to find team work
  • ignoring folder context after opening a hit
  • assuming provider mail search behaves exactly like repository content search