There are three sorts of search in Consonance.

• If you want to search by a title, ISBN-13 or contributor name, use Product search on the top nav bar.
• If you are on a list page with a search bar at the top, use that to refine the list e.g. on the products or payments pages.
• If you want to search throughout the system using various conditions, then display, export, and process the results in a multitude of ways, use the powerful built-in Reporting feature.

Product search

If you know the title, ISBN-13 or name of your contributor, use Product search on the top nav bar.

1. Find the product search bar

Locate the nav bar at the top of the page. Click into the search field on the top nav, or press the ‘/’ key, from any page in Consonance.

A dropdown appears at the top of the page.

2. Enter search terms

Enter some text, either from the title or the contributor name. Suggestions appear below.

• Type sig to return the options design, designers, designs etc.

• Type alex, and titles or contributors such as Alex and Alexander appear.

3. Choose your destination

Choose the most relevant destination from the links. The destinations are all at work level, rather than product level, or at the level of a collection of works or products.

Search bar

The search bar appears on selected list pages, such as the products page. Here are instructions for that page, but the principles are the same for all. For this example, go to Metadata › Products ⤴.

1. Type part of the title or ISBN-13

Type part of a title or an ISBN-13 into the search box marked Search by title, subtitle or ISBN-13. Click the Search button.

For example, type assassin to get matches on Curse of the Assassin, An Assassin in Orlandes, and The Martian Ambassador.

Include or exclude hyphens and spaces in the ISBN-13 – it doesn’t matter.

How does the search bar work? This search looks for both full and partial matches for the query with the ISBN-13, the full title (including any prefix) and the subtitle. The search is weighted towards those elements in that order.

• It also conducts a trigram search, which works by counting how many three-letter substrings (or \trigrams\) match between the query and the text. For example, the string \Lorem ipsum\ can be split into the following trigrams. [\Lo\, \Lor\, \ore\, \rem\, \em \, \m i\, \ip\, \ips\, \psu\, \sum\, \um \, \m \]
• Trigram search has some ability to work even with typos and misspellings in the query or text.
• The search ignores accents.
• It orders the results by publication date ascending.

Technical information: https://github.com/Casecommons/pg_search

2. Review results

The rows on the page are restricted to those which match your search.

Reporting

Search across your business using the powerful, built-in Reporting console, then choose the displays, reports and actions that your business needs.

1. Go to Reporting

Go to Insights › Reporting ⤴.

2. Click New report

Click the New report button. The page shows a blank set of conditions. There is an info icon next to the Search conditions label; click it to read example reports to inspire you.

3. Enter search conditions

Enter your search conditions by choosing from the contextual dropdowns.

4. Run the report

Click the Search button to run the report.

No matter what search conditions you run, choose the action or display that meets your requirements.

See all articles about reporting. We also have a regular segment called Reporting spotlight on our weekly livestream.