Anaconda Enterprise: Documentation

# Searching for a project or file (AEN 4.2.0)

- Types of files searched
- Search indexing
- Using search constructs
- Searching metadata fields
- Searching a project
- Saving a search
- Removing a saved search

To search for projects and files, use the Search box in the AEN navigation bar. The search provides different results depending on which page you search from:

- On a project home page, search results include any files that match your search criteria within the current project.
- On any other AEN page, search results include any files that match your search criteria within all projects.

TIP: Your search results include only files and projects that you can view: public projects, and private projects to which you have a minimum of view access.

## Types of files searched

The following types of files are included in search results:

- `.py`—Python source files.
- `.ipynb`—IPython/Jupyter notebooks.
- `.txt`—plain text files.
- `.md`—Markdown files.

## Search indexing

Files that are modified while a project is running are automatically re-indexed shortly after the files are modified. If you create or update a large number of files—such as cloning a git repository or copying a directory—search results may take several minutes to update.

Files that are modified while the project is not running are re-indexed only after the project is started.

## Using search constructs

You can use the following search constructs:

- Ordinary words will match the full-text contents of any file.

- Wildcards are permitted.

  EXAMPLE: `John*` will match John and Johnny. These are glob patterns and are similar to their usage in the command line.

- Combine queries using `AND` or `OR`, and group them using parentheses `()`.

Regular expression patterns can be embedded in the query string by wrapping them in forward-slashes (`/`):

    name:/joh?n(ath[oa]n)/

The supported regular expression syntax is explained in the Elasticsearch reference.

NOTE: Wildcards apply inside a regular expression. A query string such as `/.*n/` would force the search to visit every term in the index.

## Searching metadata fields

You can search in specific metadata fields:

- `imports:name`—matches files that import the module name.
- `uses:name`—matches files that reference the identifier name. Referenced names include any functions and globals imported from other modules, as well as the names of any methods invoked on any object.
- `defines:name`—matches files that define the identifier name. Defined names include functions defined at global scope, class names, and method names within classes.
- `acl:user`—matches files in which the named user has read access or higher.

## Searching a project

1. In the Search box, type a string of text:

   TIP: Search by glob patterns, which are similar to file matching in the command line.

   EXAMPLE: To find projects in the test family that are numbered from 00 to 99, search for `Test-??`. To find all projects whose name ends with “Stats,” search for `*Stats`.

2. Press Enter.

3. In the search results, click the plus + icon above a project name to show a list of matching files in the selected project:

   TIP: Click the project name to open the project’s home page.

4. To view a file, click its file name in the matching files list:

## Saving a search

1. At the top of the search results, click Save this search:

The “save this search” text changes to “stored” and your search is saved. Your saved searches are listed on your home page.

## Removing a saved search

On your home page, in the Saved searches section, click X next the saved search that you want to remove: