What is Dataverse search?

Dataverse search for model-driven apps helps you quickly find what you're looking for. It delivers fast and comprehensive results across multiple tables in a single list, sorted by relevance. In addition, Dataverse search delivers the following benefits:

• Fast and accurate search: Provides a precise and quick search experience for model-driven apps, and performance that's superior to categorized search.

• Suggested results as you type: Finds what you're looking for and shows you the top results, as you type.

• Better matching: Finds matches to any word in the search term for columns in a table. Provides a better user experience compared to quick find search, where all words in the search term must be found in one column.

• Smart: Finds matches that include inflectional words such as stream, streaming, or streamed.

• Search activities: Search includeds notes and attachements in activities.

• Understanding of underlying data: Understands data types like Choice and Lookup, so it can effectively interpret a search query that includes multiple search terms.

• Operators for advanced search: Lets you use simple Boolean operators in your search term and craft the query to get the results you want.

• Intelligence: Applies AI technology to interpret natural language such as misspellings, common abbreviations, and synonyms to delivers quality results.

See also

Search for tables and rows by using Dataverse search
Configure facets and filters
Frequently asked questions about Dataverse search
Developer's guide: Search for Dataverse records using the API