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Editor, structure & search — found from sitemap — BookStack
Checked for BookStack on 1 Nov 2026
- Page
- https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/user/searching/
- Checked
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:01 UTC
- How we may use it
- Public page, crawling permitted
Technical details
- type
- page
- http status
- 200
- content hash
- sha256:f50c932c1d4c414f3a18620e3a240b3c75e5faaaff1df40d80ae7275f7f98644
- permission
- robots_ok
- screenshot
- Screenshot on file (internal exhibit, not published)
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Facts read from this source
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Global search Report an error
“Header Search Bar - The search bar/link in the header of every page allows you to search from anywhere. This search is a global search which will look across all books, chapters and pages in your system.”
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Book chapter search Report an error
“Book/Chapter Search Bar - When viewing a book or chapter a search bar can be found in the top of the left sidebar. These searches will look across all child items.”
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Search in editor link selection Report an error
“Move & Link Selection - When choosing to move a page/chapter or when selecting a page/chapter/book to link to within the editor the most popular items are shown but you also have the ability to search.”
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Exact phrase search Report an error
“Exact Searches "<term>" "london meeting" Exact matches will require that the whole string within quotes exists in your content in exactly the same format.”
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Tag search Report an error
“Tag searches allow you to find pages which have specific tags applied. You can search by tag name, by tag value or by both name and value. When searching by tag value an operator must be used to define the match type. You can use =, !=, <, >,<=, >= or like as operators.”
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Negated terms Report an error
“For exact, tag & filter search terms it’s possible to negate (NOT) the search term by prefixing it with a -.”
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Date search filters Report an error
“{updated_after:<date>} {updated_after:2016-12-30} Adds the condition that the content must have been last updated after the given date.”
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User search filters Report an error
“{updated_by:<user_slug|me>} {updated_by:barry}”
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Content search filters Report an error
“{in_name:<search>} {in_name:London Meetings}”
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Restriction search filter Report an error
“{is_restricted} {is_restricted} Will require the content to have content-level permissions active. Does not return items with only inherited asset permissions.”
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Template search filter Report an error
“{is_template} {is_template} Filters page results to only those that are marked as a template (will generally want to combine with with the {type:page} filter).”
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Viewed search filters Report an error
“{viewed_by_me} {viewed_by_me} Will require the content to have been viewed by the current user at least once.”
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Type search filter Report an error
“{type:<content_types>} {type:page|chapter|book} {type:page|chapter}”
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Sort search filter Report an error
“{sort_by:<sort_method>} {sort_by:last_commented} Sort the search results in a particular order rather than the default of sorting by term match score. Currently only last_commented is supported”
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Search limits Report an error
“Normal Searches: 5 Exact Searches: 2 Tag Searches: 4 Filter Searches: 5 These limits are doubled for logged-in users.”
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