# Search and Spotlight

Spotlight, Company and Team issue search, saved Search views, and online Vault full-text results.

Status: Available

Documentation updated: 2026-09-24

Source: https://docs.orneos.com/docs/search

## Spotlight

`⌘` `K`  anywhere.

One box for both finding and doing. Type part of an issue title or reference to jump to it; type the name of a place or an action to run it. It is the fastest way to get anywhere in the app and worth learning before the navigation shortcuts.

Spotlight covers:

- Issues, by title and by reference like `ENG-42`
- Projects, by name
- Vault spaces and locally available page titles
- Vault page titles and body text through server full-text search, with matching snippets
- Navigation — every page in the sidebar
- Actions, including switching [theme](https://docs.orneos.com/docs/themes)

## The search page

`g`  then `f`  opens the issue Search page. It keeps filters alongside the query and offers two scopes:

- **Company**, selected by default, sends the query and filters to Orneos and returns issues within your authorized company access. It requires a connection; a previous cached result is not a current offline search.
- **Team** searches the active team's local issue data. Results depend on what is available in your replica.

Choose filters and sorting, then **Save view** to name a Search view. Reopening it restores the query, scope, sort and filters. These views belong to you within the team, just like other [saved views](https://docs.orneos.com/docs/filters-and-saved-views).

Within a list, `s`  focuses that list's own search box, which narrows what is on screen rather than searching everything.

## Local results and online Vault search

Spotlight combines local lookups with a debounced request to Orneos for Vault full-text search. Issues, projects, available Vault titles and navigation can be found from local material. Online results add matches from Vault page bodies and snippets; server results are filtered by the active team and your space access.

Your Spotlight query is sent to the Orneos server for Vault search. This lookup does not use a model provider. If the server cannot be reached, local matches remain useful, but body matches and snippets are unavailable. Opening a Vault page still needs a connection.

Spotlight highlights matching title text, and server Vault snippets mark matching terms. These are search matches, not proof that a document answers your question.

## Search boundaries

- **Spotlight uses the active team.** Use the Search page's Company scope for authorized cross-team issue results; its Team scope and Spotlight remain scoped to the active team. See [Companies and teams](https://docs.orneos.com/docs/companies-and-teams).
- **Local completeness depends on your replica.** An unloaded record cannot appear in a local lookup.
- **Comments are not a complete searchable archive.** They load on demand; do not rely on finding an unopened issue through its discussion.
- **No text query operators** such as `assignee:me` or `label:bug`. Use the filter controls for structured narrowing, and save the Search view to reuse it.

For questions rather than lookups — "which issues slipped last month?" — see [Insights](https://docs.orneos.com/docs/insights).