Administrators can customize Next Experience search settings. Add new searchable tables, modify the fields displayed for search results from a table, or add workspace applications to the search context menu for users.

Next Experience search is enabled by default in the Unified Navigation.

Add a searchable table

A search source specifies a table to include in Next Experience search. The search results page displays matching records and their counts on a per-table basis. Users can select a table to filter their search results, displaying only matching records from the selected table.


Table filter list from search results page.

To make a table searchable in Next Experience, add it as a new search source. For details on this procedure, see Add a search source for Next Experience.

For the list of tables searchable by default in the base system, see Default global search sources for Next Experience.

Modify the fields displayed for each search result from a table

The text_search list view for a searchable table determines which fields the system uses to populate the title, field list, and description for each result from that table.


Sample search result listing in Next Experience UI showing result's title, field list, and description.

To learn how the system uses fields in the text_search list view to populate search result entries, see Text search views control format of global search results for tables.

For the list of fields included in the base system's text_search list views for the default searchable tables, see Default display fields for global search tables.

Add a workspace application to the search context menu

The search context menu enables users to view and open search results in available workspace applications as well as in global search.


Search context menu displayed beneath Unified Navigation search field.

To add a workspace application to the search context menu, see Add a workspace application to the Unified Navigation search context menu.

For details on using the search context menu, see View and open search results using workspace applications in Next Experience Unified Navigation.

For more information on configuring search settings in Next Experience, see Global search finds records from multiple tables.