Search
Select Star’s Search is designed to help you find any data objects (tables, columns, Tableau Workbooks, Mode Reports, Looker Explores, etc.) without even knowing exactly what they’re called.
Use search in Select Star to answer questions such as...
Watch this video to learn more about Select Star's universal search, or keep reading for more details:
Top Search
The search bar at the top of the page is always available to find or quickly navigate to any data asset.
Space works as a delimiter in the search, so if you search for order items you'll get results with both "order" and "items", whereas if you search for order_items you'll get results that are looking for "order_items" as one word.
Note that when you search for multiple words, the order of the search terms matters!
Click on different tabs below the search bar to see results from a specific data source. For instance if you're looking for a Looker Explore, click the Looker tab and then select Looker Explore.
Search Results Page
After you've typed a query into the top search, hit Enter/Return on your keyboard to see a full search results page and browse more high level information at once.
The tabs available in the top search dropdown are separated into individual filters on the side of the page, under Asset Types.
From this view, you can also choose to display or hide other items, such as Tags and Owners, by adjusting the column filters.
Search Ranking
Select Star ranks search results on a number of factors, including:
match type (name, breadcrumb, description)
popularity
asset type
tag
Tag Boost
Customers put a lot of effort to tag and organize data, and we want that to work for you. That is why we have updated our search algorithm to provide a slight boost for data assets tagged with specific tags. Data Assets with a tags with the following icon will receive a positive boost in the search results:
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