The search page of Invantive Cloud Documentation shows the results of a search over the product documentation, the data models and the forum. It opens at `/{lang}/search?q={terms}`. The search page with the results narrowed down to the data models: ![The search page of Invantive Cloud Documentation with "invoice" narrowed to "Source: datamodel", the filters and the results.](20261109-docs-search.png) ## Results Each result is one page of the site, shown once and in the language of the reader where the page is available in it. A result shows the title, the section it belongs to and a short piece of text in which the search terms occur. A popular table of a data model, such as `Accounts` of Exact Online, ranks above a table with a similar name that is used less. A search typed in another language than that of the site still finds pages, because titles, table names and column names are also searched in the language they were written in. A search on the name of an API endpoint, an API field or the short name of a platform, such as `eol` for Exact Online, finds the table or platform that uses it. ## Filters The filters next to the results narrow the search down. Each filter value shows the number of results that remain when it is chosen, counted with all other chosen filters, as in a web shop. The following filters are available: - "Source": the product documentation, the data models or the forum. - "Product": the Invantive product. - "Platform": the platform, such as Exact Online or Teamleader Focus. - "Tool": a tool of another party used with a product, such as Power BI. - "Topic": a subject such as licences or performance. - "Status": for forum topics, whether a topic is solved, answered or unanswered. - "Age": how recent the last change is: in the last month, year, three years or older. - "Release": the release of the Invantive products the page applies to. - "Type": the kind of content. - "Kind": for documentation, whether a topic is a concept, a procedure, a reference, troubleshooting, release notes or a frequently asked question. - "Object": for data models, a table, view, table function or platform. - "Area": for forum topics, the category of the forum. - "Tag": the tags of a forum topic. When the results are narrowed down to data models, further filters appear for them only: - whether a table is popular, - the operations a table allows: read only, insert, update or delete, - whether the data is kept per partition, such as per Exact Online company, - whether changes arrive through a webhook, - the kind of API: REST, XML, SOAP, Swagger or EDI, - the kind of platform, the status of the driver, whether the data is public and whether the driver is in the community edition. A platform whose data model was generated before these facts were recorded is left out of these counts, rather than counted as "read only" or "no webhook". The chosen filters are shown above the results; choosing one removes it again. On a phone the filters are folded under "Filters", with the number of filters chosen. ## Suggestions and "Did You Mean" While typing, the search box suggests table names and titles that start with the letters typed. When a search finds nothing, the page proposes a similar spelling under "Did you mean", taken from the titles and table names of the site. ## Search Engines Search result pages are not meant for the index of a search engine: `robots.txt` asks crawlers to skip them. The same results are available as Markdown at `/{lang}/search.md?q={terms}`; see [[Invantive Cloud Documentation/Interfaces/Search Interfaces|Search Interfaces]].