Use Smart Search

Use Smart search to quickly find dashboards, visualizations, and metrics in your workspace. It searches through names, descriptions, and tags, helping you locate relevant content, even when you’re unsure of the exact name.

A dashboard with the search bar expanded from the top navigation. The search bar allows you to find dashboards, visualizations, and metrics using names, descriptions, and tags. A dropdown with suggested search results is visible below the search bar.

The search bar is available from the top navigation bar in your workspace. To open it quickly, use the Ctrl + K or Cmd + K shortcut.

Unlike traditional full-text search, which relies on exact keyword matches, Smart Search first vectorizes the searched text using an AI language model, and then uses cosine similarity optimized for multiple supported languages. This approach accommodates queries that include synonyms and minor typos. You can improve the accuracy of your search results by giving your analytical objects meaningful names and descriptions.

Search results respect workspace permissions, so you will only see dashboards, visualizations, and metrics that you have access to.

Identical visualizations used across multiple dashboards are grouped into a single expandable result. This reduces clutter and allows you to review all occurrences of a visualization in one place. Expanding the group displays each instance, and you can navigate directly to the dashboard where it appears or select Edit to open it for editing in Analytical Designer.

If Smart Search does not return relevant results, and you have access to the AI Assistant, you can continue the query there. The assistant opens with your search term pre-filled and immediately returns an answer or an ad-hoc visualization.

Smart Search in Analytical Designer

Smart Search is also available in the catalog of analytics objects in the Analytical Designer. It helps you find analytics objects by meaning, not only by exact text matches. This can be useful when you do not remember the exact object name or when the object uses different terminology than the phrase you search for.

For example, a search for revenue can return a metric named Sales Amount. A search for customer count can return an object such as Number of Customers.

This search experience combines two behaviors in one search box:

  • immediate frontend filtering for fast feedback
  • semantic search to improve relevance and help discover related objects

This means you can start typing and get immediate results, while the search also helps surface semantically related metrics, attributes, facts, and other analytics objects.

Smart Search respects existing permissions. Users only see objects they have permission to access.

Supported Languages

The search function is optimized to support searching in the following languages:

  • English
  • Arabic
  • Dutch
  • French
  • German
  • Hindi
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Vietnamese

For Developers

This Smart Search feature is also available in our React SDK toolkit under Semantic Search and in our API under ai/search.