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:
| Group | What a row is | Where clicking it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Sites | A site you belong to in this workspace | The site dashboard |
| Pages | A page on the open site | The page's version view |
| Emails | A designed email on the open site | The email in the Besigner |
| Components | A reusable component | The component page |
| Layouts | A shared layout | The layout page |
| Templates | A site template | The template page |
| Content | A content collection | The Content page |
| Authors | A content author | The Content page |
| Workflows | A workflow | The Automation page |
| Products | A product | The Products page |
| Redirects | A redirect, matched on its source path | The Redirects page |
| Services | A bookable service | The Bookings page |
| Contacts | A person in the CRM, matched on their name, email, phone number or company name | The contact's own page in the CRM |
| Leads | A lead captured on a site, matched on their name or email | The lead's own page in the CRM |
| Companies | A company in the CRM, matched on its name or domain | The company's own page in the CRM |
| Deals | A deal, matched on its title | The deal's own page in the CRM |
| Tasks | A task, matched on its title or notes | The record the task was filed under, or the Tasks list when it names none |
| Activities | A logged call, email, meeting or note, matched on the subject of a sent message or the text of a logged one | The record the activity was filed under |
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. Workflows, products, redirects, services and the CRM's groups also appear only where their feature is switched on for the site, since that is where their pages open. Contacts appear only while the CRM is available to you and your role can manage data — the same rule that opens the CRM itself — so a person you could not open never shows up as a result. The other CRM groups — leads, companies, deals, tasks and activities — follow that same rule.
Tasks and activities have no page of their own, so a row opens the record it was filed under: the deal if it names one, otherwise the company, otherwise the person, otherwise the lead. A task filed against nothing in particular opens the Tasks list.
Searching from the organization
At the organization-level CRM — /{workspace}/crm, with no site in the
address — the CRM groups search across every site in the workspace rather
than one, and each result opens in the organization's CRM. This is offered to
organization-wide members only, which is the same rule that opens that hub.
The site groups — pages, emails, components, layouts, templates, content, authors, workflows, products, redirects and services — belong to one site and are not searched from there; open a site first.
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".
What it does not search
Being precise about this matters — an empty result should mean "you do not have one", not "search could not see it".
- Orders and bookings are not searchable. They are found on their own pages, which have their own filters.
- Media has its own search and filters on the Media page: search by the start of a word in a file name, and filter by type, tags, upload date and more. 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.