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Search

Search finds an Item anywhere in your Organization — across every Space and Location at once — which is usually exactly what you need when you remember roughly what something is but not precisely where you put it. It's reachable from the Search entry in the sidebar.

Free-text search​

Type into the search box to match against an Item's name, description, and its synonyms — including a degree of typo tolerance, so a near-miss spelling still surfaces the right result. Text search also reaches into text-based custom field values, not just the Item's built-in name/description.

Numeric and unit-based values (a resistance, a quantity, a date) are deliberately not matched by the free-text box — typing "10k" is genuinely ambiguous (10kΩ? 10kg? a quantity of 10,000?), so those are handled precisely instead by the structured filters below.

:::info Screenshot placeholder The Search page: a text box at the top, a filter sidebar on the left, and a results table. :::

Filtering by Item Type​

Pick a single Item Type to narrow results — selecting a broader (abstract) type like "Passive" includes every item under it (resistors, capacitors, inductors, ...), while selecting a specific leaf type like "Resistor" narrows all the way down. Once a specific type is selected, its own fields become available as additional filters — for a Resistor, that means you can filter directly by Resistance range, Tolerance, and so on, not just the type name.

Structured filters​

Alongside free text and type selection, a filter panel offers:

  • Owner — who the item is currently assigned to.
  • Quantity — a numeric range.
  • Created date — a date range.
  • Whatever type-specific fields the selected Item Type defines, with a filter widget matched to each field's kind: a text-contains box, a numeric or unit-aware range (with a unit dropdown, so you can search "1kΩ to 5kΩ" and correctly match values stored in Ω, kΩ, or MΩ alike), a date range, multi-select checkboxes for Select-kind fields, or a member picker for Person-kind fields.

Filters combine with AND across different fields, and OR within a multi-select filter (e.g. selecting two Owner values matches items owned by either).

:::info Screenshot placeholder The filter panel with an Item Type selected, showing that type's own field filters (e.g. a Resistance min/max range with a unit dropdown) alongside the universal Owner/Quantity/Created-date filters. :::

Results​

Results are shown as a table — thumbnail, name, type, its Space › Location path, quantity, owner, and (when a single Item Type is selected) that type's own field values as extra columns. Results load incrementally as you scroll. Sort by name, creation date, or, when applicable, the active numeric/unit field you're filtering on (e.g. "sort these resistors by resistance").

Search and every active filter are reflected in the page's URL, so a specific search is bookmarkable and shareable, and survives a page refresh.

Loading the Search page with nothing typed in shows every Item in your Organization, unfiltered — not a blank prompt screen — so it also works as a general "browse everything" view.