Help for Enterprise Vault Search

Finding your way around Enterprise Vault Search

Enterprise Vault Search has multiple panes in which you can browse, search, and view content.

The sidebar displays your favorites list, the recent actions that you have taken, and the archives to which you have access.

If you cannot see the sidebar, click Actions at the top right of Enterprise Vault Search and select Show Sidebar.

You can add your most frequently accessed folders and advanced search queries to the favorites list.

You can view and run recently performed actions in the recent list.

The sidebar organizes archives into predefined groups based on archive type, such as Email, File, and SharePoint. Expand a group to see the archives and folders that it contains. if you have access to a lot of archives, you can add the frequently-accessed ones to a custom archive group so that you can quickly find them. You can browse through an archive by selecting a folder in the sidebar.

If you use a folder shortcut file to view an archived folder in Enterprise Vault Search, the sidebar includes a Show folders link that you can use to view the complete folder hierarchy.

See Showing or hiding the sidebar and favorites list.

See Creating and arranging archive groups.

See Adding a frequently used folder to the favorites list.

The location bar lets you see your current location and quickly navigate between folders in a hierarchy.

To move from one folder to another, click a folder name in the location bar.

The search pane lets you enter search criteria. In a simple search, a list of search suggestions appears when you type text in the search pane.

You can switch between simple search and advanced search. Simple search lets you enter keywords, phrases, and search query syntax, whereas advanced search lets you select multiple criteria to refine your search. You can save an advanced search for reuse.

See Running a simple search.

See Running an advanced search.

Click your user name at the top right of Enterprise Vault Search to access commands with which you can do the following:

Click the Help button to view the Help documentation and videos.

Click the Actions button at the top right of Enterprise Vault Search to access various commands. The list varies according to what you select in the sidebar or the results pane. Depending on the selection you can do some of the following:

The reading pane shows a preview of the currently selected item. You can also preview attachments of items. You may not be able to preview certain types of files, such as videos and music files.

See Showing, hiding, and positioning the reading pane.

You can download, move, copy and delete items, and hide or show the item header details using the reading pane toolbar buttons.

See About the reading pane toolbar.

The results pane shows the contents of a folder or the results of a search.

The columns that are displayed in the results pane depend on the archive type, but you can easily add, remove, or rearrange the columns.

Click Show above the results pane columns to switch between viewing in columns and as a list, or to filter the results by type.

See Customizing the columns displayed in the results pane.