One shortcut opens a search box that reaches across Pyron — the entries your team has logged and the screens you work in — so you can find something the moment you think of it, wherever you are.
The search shortcut
Press Cmd + K (or Ctrl + K on Windows) from any screen to open search without leaving what you are doing. Type a word or two and matches appear as you type; pick one to jump straight to it. There is also a full search page for when you want more room to read through the results. For a step-by-step walkthrough, see Quick search.
Search only ever shows you what you are allowed to see. Results are limited to the entries and screens your access reaches, so two people searching the same words can get different results depending on which parts of the directory they can open. To understand how that access follows the branches, see The directory.
Keyword and meaning-based results
Search looks through your entries two ways at once. Keyword matching finds entries that contain the words you typed — a site name, an asset number, a phrase from a report. Meaning-based matching goes a step further: it finds entries that are about what you asked, even when they use different words.
Ask something like "which reports mention safety concerns" and meaning-based matching surfaces entries about safety even if none of them use that exact phrase. An entry that matches both ways is shown once, not twice, so a single list of results covers both.
Every result carries a short snippet of the entry and shows where it is filed, so you can tell the right one apart at a glance. Open a result and you land on the Entries page with that entry selected, ready to read in full. To learn more about the entries behind the results, see Entries; for more on meaning-based matching, see Meaning-based search.
Meaning-based matching depends on your organisation's entries being indexed for meaning. When that indexing is not in place, keyword search still finds entries by their words, and Pyron tells you meaning-based matches are unavailable — so a quiet result reads as "nothing indexed yet", not as proof that nothing matched.
Jumping to screens
Search is not only for entries. Type the name of a site or asset and it takes you to that place in the directory; type the name of a page and it opens that page. It doubles as a fast way to move around Pyron, not only a way to look things up. To learn what those pages hold, see Pages, tabs and widgets.
The same search reaches the forms your organisation uses to capture information, so you can jump to one by name. If you build the forms your team fills in, or set up the flow graphs that automate your processes, search finds those by name as well, from wherever you are. For more on the forms behind your entries, see Data schemas and forms.