Support for additional entities in global search
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| Enabled for | Public preview | Early access | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | - |  Apr 1, 2020 |
Business value
Global search helps users quickly search information across multiple record types. Users can already search across webpages and files, knowledge articles, blog and forum posts, ideas, and cases. Supporting additional entities, including custom ones, helps customers extend global search to more record types for their users. This especially helps customers derive more value from global search in Power Apps portals built from blank using starter portal template.
Feature details
This feature aims at adding support for additional entities that can be searched within a portal in a configurable way.
The capability to enable search is controlled via settings:
Records of a particular type that are to be made in global search and the fields that are indexed for search can be configured via a view for each entity individually.
Record types can be secured and made available in search results via explicit Read entity permissions. Makers can specify the page that opens from their search results for each record type that they enable the search on.
Global search is based on Lucene.Net, and its current capabilities, such as specifying additional weights and filters, support for terms, and wildcards are available. Also, the configuration of entity filters, support for searchindex liquid tag are available for additional entities.
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See also
Power Apps portals support additional entities in global search (blog)