Search and browse features

Here is an overview of Jive search and browse features. Note that as you interact in the community, Jive keeps track of your interests and connections and recommends relevant content, people, and places.

Search for something specific by using keywords in the Spotlight search

Clicking opens the Spotlight search. In order to initiate the search, you need to click on one of the suggestions or press Enter.

For information on using it, see Using Spotlight search.

If that is not enough, you can switch to the Advanced Search. Click Advanced Search in the Spotlight search to open the Advanced Search page.

Search for something specific by using keywords in the Advanced Search

The Advanced Search page offers more options to refine your search than the Spotlight search and does not apply the wildcard, as it expects you to provide all of your detailed criteria for the most specific results. For example, here you can limit a document search by author or search for deactivated users.

Check your recently viewed items

To see your recently viewed items, click

. This opens the lists of content items, people, and places you recently visited on the Recently Viewed tab.

Viewing your search history

To see your latest searches, click and then select Search History. Here you can find the last three keywords you searched.
To see your Jive search history, click Show all search history under the latest searches list.

Search for something within a place

If you know something is saved in a specific place, you can limit your spotlight search to just that place. First, go to the place. Then, type your keyword into the search box and select click here to only show results for <this place>.

And in the Advanced Search, you can search both the space and its subspaces (if any). Click Advanced Search from the search box, select a space in Restrict results by > Place and select the search depth under Subspace depth. You can limit the search by the current space, its direct children, or all spaces under it in the hierarchy.

Search for someone's content

If you know someone authored a document or participated in a discussion but you can't remember any keywords from the discussion, go to the person profile and click Content. From there, browse through their recent content creations and updates, to find what you're looking for.

Find places by categories

To find places marked with certain place categories, click your avatar > Your Places > All, and then click Add Filter and select a predefined place category in the All list.

This works only if your community manager set up place categories.

Browse and filter content, people, and places

Click People in the top main navigation menu (it may be nested under the Browse button), or in the menu under your avatar click Your Content or Your Places. On the opened page, use the left navigation pane to refine the results by how they relate to you. For more information on filtering, see Browse and filter content, people, and places.

Bookmark useful content and use your bookmarks

You can bookmark any piece of content. You can find your most recent bookmarks later by clicking the Spotlight search at the upper right corner, and then clicking Bookmarks. To browse through all of your bookmarks, click Show all my bookmarks. From there, you can see the bookmarks of others by clicking All in the left sidebar.

Tag content to make it easier to find later

You can assign tags that act as keywords to existing or new content to describe it for people who might search for it later. You can also assign tags to a status update. For more information about tagging, see Using tags.

Use recommendations

Jive includes a powerful "genius" feature that analyzes your business relationships, expertise, and areas of interest based on your behavior in the community. It then uses that data to recommend relevant content, people, and places that you have not yet seen in the community. There are several places in the interface where you see your recommendations, but a quick way to see them is to navigate to People (in the main navigation menu) or to Your Places or Your Content (from the menu under your avatar). Then click Recommended in the left sidebar. For more information about using recommendations, see Using your recommendations.