Create a Search

The Search panel is a central location where you can create searches and view the content that your searches find on your Inception server. To create a simple search, all you need to do is define a search query with one or more terms that the content you are looking for must match.

To create a search

1.From the main toolbar, click or tap the  Search icon.

The Search panel opens.

2.In the Search Query box, enter the terms with which to search for content stored on your Inception Server. To search for content contained in Inception playlist, social media, or wire items, you need to select Items from the Content list in the Advanced Options section (refer to section Search by Content Type).

Searches are not case sensitive. The following table lists the valid search terms and operators for constructing a search query.

Inception uses the terms entered in the Search Query box to search the following Inception content attributes:

•Assignment — Slug, Location, Program, Format, Note, Content, Status

•Contact — First Name, Last Name, Assigned Group, Title, Department, Company, Email, Phone, Mobile, Fax, Notes

•Feeds — Name

›Facebook — Query

›Instagram — Query

›Twitter — Query

›RSS — URL

›Spredfast — URL

›Wire — Query

•MOS Objects and MOS Story Items — XML body contents

•Playlist — Name, Title, Description, Author, Handle, City, State, Country, Created, Modified, Created By

•Poll — Description, Question

•Running Order — Name

•Stories of All Formats — Slug, Body, Notes

›YouTube — Title, Keywords

›Web — Properties

3.Select one of the following options to control how Inception uses the terms entered in the Search Query box to search for content:

•Contains any of the words — select this option to search for content that contains at least one of the words entered in the Search Query box. When you select this option, Inception uses the OR search operator between words entered in the Search Query box.

•Contains all of the words — select this option to search for content that contains all the words entered in the Search Query box. When you select this option, Inception uses the AND search operator between words entered in the Search Query box.

4.Click or tap Search.

The Results page of the Search panel opens to display the first 500 content items on your Inceptions Server that match the terms you entered in the Search Query box.

5.To change the columns displayed in the Results table, complete the following steps:

a.In the Search panel, right-click or tap and hold on the title of any table column.

The Columns list opens.

b.Select Search panel columns as follows:

•To include a column, select the check box to the left of the column name.

•To remove a column, clear the check box to the left of the column name.

c.Select the Force fit columns check box to automatically resize column widths to the table content.

d.Click or tap Close.

e.Click and drag columns to reposition columns in the Results table.

f.Click and drag column dividers to manually resize the width of individual columns.

6.To get more information about a content item in the Results table, double-click the content item to open it in an Editor panel.

7.You can drag the following types of content items from the Results table to the listed Inception panels to develop new stories:

Instead of dragging a content item into an Inception panel, you copy (Ctrl C) the content item and paste (Ctrl V) it into an Inception panel.