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Search the console

The magnifier in the console app bar — or K on a Mac, CtrlK elsewhere — opens a search palette over whatever page you are on, including the Besigner.

Type at least two characters. Results are grouped by kind, and clicking one takes you straight to it.

What it searches

Everything below is searched within the site you currently have open, plus your sites across the workspace:

GroupWhat a row isWhere clicking it goes
SitesA site you belong to in this workspaceThe site dashboard
PagesA screen on the open siteThe screen's version view
EmailsAn email screen on the open siteThe email in the Besigner
ComponentsA reusable componentThe component page
LayoutsA shared layoutThe layout page
TemplatesA site templateThe template page
ContentA content collectionThe Content page
AuthorsA content authorThe Content page
WorkflowsA workflowThe Workflows page
ProductsA productThe Products page
RedirectsA redirect, matched on its source pathThe Redirects page
ServicesA bookable serviceThe Bookings page

A group only appears if your plan includes it. On the Free plan there are no workflows, products, services or redirects, so those groups are neither shown nor searched.

How matching works

It matches any part of a name, not just the beginning. Searching layout finds "Main Layout"; so does lay, main, and main lay.

Ranking puts the closest match first: an exact name, then a name that starts with what you typed, then a word inside the name, then anything else. Pages and products can also be found by their slug or route, but a match on the name always ranks above a match on a slug.

Accents are ignored, so cafe finds "Café".

Being precise about this matters — an empty result should mean "you do not have one", not "search could not see it".

  • Orders, bookings and contacts are not searchable. They are found on their own pages, which have their own filters.
  • Media has its own, richer search on the Media page, including wildcards and searching by tag or custom field. See the media library.
  • Other workspaces. Search only ever covers the workspace named in the page address you are on.
  • Other people's sites. You only ever see sites you are a member of.

Why a group sometimes says it was only partly searched

To keep search fast and cheap, each group reads a capped number of items rather than your entire site. If a group is larger than that cap, the palette says so underneath the results — that line means there may be matches it did not look at, so try a more specific word.

Most sites never hit the cap.

If a group could not be read at all, it says that too, in red. That is a different thing from "no matches", and it is worth retrying or reporting.