Underscores in Search - Search works better!

#1

Ok - so I just figured out - and maybe you all knew:

Search makes me crazy because I look up: Margin Customer and the results are everything with the word margin or customer - but I know my report starts Margin Customer. You can’t use quotes, however, if you can use underscore like:
Margin_Customer
you will get search results like using “Margin Customer” in a Microsoft Product.

This brought me joy, so I thought I would share.

#2

Good to know! Thanks for sharing!!!

#3

Love this @jessica.turcotte !
Thanks for sharing :grinning:

#4

That is good to know, thanks for sharing.

#5

Thanks for this, although I have yet to get it to work in any of the places I’ve tried a search so far!

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#6

Good to know! Thanks!

#7

Thanks for sharing this great tip

#8

A very helpful discovery!

But it doesn’t seem to work all the time. I suspect (but don’t know for sure) this is because the URL generated for that template converts spaces to underscores. In that case it will actually be finding the URL text (rather than applying a wildcard search to report titles, for example).

If so, this would mean that this trick will work only if searching for words at the beginning of filenames, and will be less successful in finding words at the end of the template names.

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#9

Good find, Jess! Always helpful :slight_smile:

#10

gonna use that one, thank you!

#11

Thanks for sharing this tip.

#12

Thank you for the tip!

#13

Thanks for the tip! :slight_smile:

#14

I did not know this…and will be using it now! Thanks!

#15

Thanks for the info, will be useful!

#16

awesome. this is great feedback. thanks!

#17

So helpful!! Thank you for sharing.

#18

Thanks for the tip! I’ve been using it since I saw your post.

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#19

This is great to know!!

#20

This_is_a_great_tip!

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