Searching for content

Within the standard deployment we have a number of scopes matching the different types of data in the system. If the scope is not changed before searching then the default scope “All” will be used.

To access the search panel on desktop, click the magnifying glass icon in the top right of the page:

On mobile, click the magnifying glass icon in the bottom menu:

In the search panel users can enter their search query and choose a scope, then press enter or click the search icon to perform the desired search:

• The first set of scopes will return appropriate content from any type of workspace
• The second set of scopes will find content only within Knowledge workspaces
• The third set of scopes will find content only within Communications workspaces
• The final set of scopes will take the user to the Microsoft 365 search experience rather than an Atlas Listing page. This can be used when searching for content across all of Microsoft 365 rather than just in Atlas, for example in out of the box SharePoint sites, out of the box Teams, or OneDrive.

Each search scope has its own Listing Page for showing the related results and each Listing page has different refiners to suit the content displayed.

See an example Listing Page below for Knowledge - users can type a query into the search box, use verticals to choose a "scope" within the results, use filters to apply any metadata filter, and sort order to change the order of results shown.