Looking to make an Advanced Search?
Learn how to use advanced search options here: Advanced Searching for Events, Locations, Organizations, Resources, and Tasks
Using the Dashboard Quick Search
Security Note
To enable searching for your users' security groups, look for the following optional permissions in Series25 Group Administration:
In the "Basic Options" tab:
- 10.0 View Tasks List
- 16.0 Basic Location Searching
- 18.0 Basic Resource Searching
- 20.0 Basic Organization Searching
In the "Administrative Options" tab:
- 14.0 Create, Edit, and Copy Contacts
Your home dashboard in 25Live features an array of customizable widgets, including Quick Search. This widget allows you to search for events, locations, resources, and organizations. Go to the search view (described below) to search for contacts and tasks.
Image: The Quick Search widget on your home dashboard provides a fast way to search for keywords.
Type in one or more keywords for the type of object you want to search for, and use the search button(s) to continue. The Quick search looks through event names, event titles, event reference numbers, location or resource names or short names, or organization names and titles.
Your search results will display in the search section. See Working with Search Results to learn how to sort, filter, and view multiple columns of results.
Performing a Keyword Quick Search
Navigate to the Search section by using the Go to Search button in the top navigation bar on every page of 25Live. There is also a Search link in the More menu in the top navigation. The Search section defaults to the Quick Search mode.
To Perform a Keyword Search
1. Choose the Search Type
Using the dropdown menu, you can choose to search for Events, Locations, Organizations, Resources, Tasks, or Contacts.
Image: Use the dropdown menu to choose a search area.
Note: Predefined Groups for Searches
Image: Pre-Defined Groups are available for quick, convenient searching.
25Live includes Pre-Defined Groups to help you quickly search. Pre-Defined Groups will vary based on the object you've selected.
Above are the Pre-Defined Groups for location searches:
- Your Starred Locations
- Your Express Locations (if your instance supports Express Scheduling)
- All Locations (available to users in the (-1) security group)
These are located in the Saved Searches dropdown menu for your convenience.
2. Enter Keywords
If you're not searching for tasks, enter one or more keywords. You must type a search term at least 2 characters long and/or use the More Options menu to select at least one criteria option. When searching for contacts, you can look for the contact's name or email address.
Keyword searches look through:
- Events - event name, event title, event reference number
- Locations - location name or short name
- Resources - resource name
- Organizations - organization name
- Contacts - contact name, email addresses, security group, title, phone
- Tasks - (Best practice: Type :: to use SeriesQL)
- See the Searching for Tasks and Acting on Saved Task Searches topics for more task searching details.
Tip: Searching for Event Reference Numbers
If you search for a full event reference number in the format of YYYY-XXXXXX (year-identification), the search will take you directly to the event details view.
If you only search for the identification, or end, of the event reference, 25Live will look for an event with the current year + that identification code. If found, you will see the event details view.
If there is no event this year with that identification code, 25Live will check through event titles and names for your keyword entry, then return results.
3. Run the Search
Use the Search button or your Enter or Return key to view your search results.
Note: Contacts Only Use the Simple Keyword Search
Because searching for contacts is simpler than searching for other objects, the Contacts search only utilizes the simple keyword search.
Image: Search results can be displayed as a list, calendar or availability (for locations and resources) on desktop or mobile devices.
Filtering by Event Criteria
When searching for events, locations, organizations, and resources, you can add more filters and options to narrow your search.
To begin, just as you did for keyword searches, navigate to the Search section by using the Go to Search link in the top navigation bar on every page of 25Live. There is also a Search link in the More menu in the top navigation.
1. Use the Filter Link Menus
After typing keyword(s) into the search field, use the various filter link menus (signified by a filter type and a plus (+) symbol) to reveal available filter areas.
Image: Example of the filter link menus available when searching for events. Different filter types will be available when searching for different object types.
2. Select Filter Criteria
Tip: Searching for Events by Folder
If your institution uses many cabinets and folders rather than Best Practices, you can choose Folder as one of your search criteria.
Image: Use the Select All or Select None buttons for quick selection/deselection.
Using the link menu for each filter type, select criteria from the display. Select as many filters as you need (or use the Select All link). Use the Select None link if you want to clear your choices.
Image: Some filter types, such as Capacity when searching for Locations, have fields to fill in rather than items to check.
Filtering Searches Using System Tags
With permission, any user can filter by tags anywhere that they might use categories, such as searching for locations, organizations, events, and resources.
Image: You can Filter by Tags when using the Quick Search.
You may use the Categories + link and then open the Filter By Tags dropdown to check categories and narrow your results.
Tips: Selecting Search Filters
- Selecting too many filters may yield too few results to find what you’re looking for. It’s best to initially select fewer filters, then add more as needed.
- Some areas provide a drop-down menu and/or an Only Favorites button to narrow filter choices.
- Other areas (such as Capacity when searching for Locations) require you to enter values.
3. Add Additional Filters
Close the filter display, and repeat to add more filters from other areas.
4. Run the Search
Use the Search button or your Enter or Return key to view your search results.
Filtering by Occurrence Date
In addition to being able to filter by criteria such as Organization, Category, or State, you can also filter by the event occurrence dates.
Image: Use one of the highlighted buttons to switch the filter time-period.
- Recent & Future - Displays all events that at least one occurrence have taken place in the last 18 months OR takes place in the future
- Future - Displays all events that have at least one occurrence that takes place in the future
- All Dates - Displays all events