Searching in the Portal

List searches

The following applies to the search box located in the following places:

• Service order pages (e.g. the locations list when provisioning a port)
• Service list pages (e.g. the virtual circuits page, the ports page)
• The Notifications page
• The Locations page

For example, searching the locations when creating a port:

As well as searching your provisioned ports:

When using these search fields, you can use AND and OR operators.

• To perform an AND search, use the ampersand (&) character. For example, CHI & equ would return all Equinix sites in Chicago.
• To perform an OR search, use a comma. For example, LAX1, LAX2 would return all interfaces whose ID includes LAX1 or LAX2.

Searches are case insensitive.

Global searches

The global search field is at the top of the portal:

The global search returns results for the following:

• Your provisioned services
• Pages and actions within the portal
• Knowledge base documentation

Searches are case insensitive.

Keyword (simple) searches

A keyword search is just searching for a value, e.g. hosted cloud.

This search is performed against your provisioned services, pages and actions within the portal, and the documentation. When searching against provisioned services, it looks at certain fields depending on the service type (see below).

Note the following:

• Keyword searches act as phrases. For example, when you search hosted cloud, it behaves as "hosted cloud".

• Use the pipe character to perform an OR search. For example, hosted|cloud (no spaces) would return results that match either hosted or cloud.

• If you insert quotation marks, you trigger a field search (see below). Field searches are not performed against portal pages or the knowledge base.

  For example, searching "hosted cloud" would only return services that had the phrase “hosted cloud” in their description field. Searching either "hosted" "cloud" or "hosted"|"cloud" would return services that had either string in the applicable field.

Field searches

When you execute a keyword search, the search is performed across certain fields within your provisioned services (ports, virtual circuits, etc.)

However, you can further narrow your search to only return results for a specified field.

For example, say you have the the following services:

• A port with the description “Port for hosted connections”
• A Hosted cloud connection with the description “Primary AWS connection”

Then you perform the following searches:

• hosted - This would return both services, as well as links to various portal and documentation pages.

• "hosted" - This would return both services, but no links to portal or documentation pages (the double quotes trigger a field search).

• description:hosted - This would only return the port.

• port_type:hosted - This would only return the Hosted cloud connection.

Mixed searches

You can perform a field search and a keyword search at the same time, for example:

port_type:hosted AWS

This would return a Hosted cloud connection (port_type:hosted) that also matched AWS in some way. This could be because it had “AWS” in the description field or the service_provider was aws.

Fields

Operators

No operator implies that it must match. Otherwise, you can use the following:

• == equals
• != does not equal
• < less than
• <= less than or equal
• > greater than
• >= greater than or equal
• ~ like
• !~ not like