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EmpowerID's search engine is a powerful tool that enables users to quickly find designed to help users easily locate information about various resources within their organization. Each resource type, including This search engine streamlines the process of finding specific data related to user accounts, people, and groups, has a corresponding Find page. These pages provide a Locations treeamong other resource types.

Each resource type has its own dedicated Find page, which offers a range of helpful features to assist users in their search. These features include a Locations tree for easy navigation, basic and advanced search fields for precise queries, a grid that displays resource records, and contextual action links that can be used allow users to perform actions against specific resource objects.For instance, the Find page for user accounts is displayed in Figure 1. Basic search, as shown in the image, is useful when searching on the identified resources.

To ensure a more manageable search experience, EmpowerID's search engine provides two search options on the Find pages: basic search and advanced search. The basic search option is particularly useful when looking for a specific user account. Users can enter simply input a search term, such as the user's name or logon name of the user, and EmpowerID returns will return the exact record(s) related to the associated with that search term. To return multiple users' records, users can use the advanced search features, the Locations tree, or a combination of both. Figure 2 and Figure 3 show examples of using the Locations tree and advanced search to find all user accounts in a specific domain or directory.

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The advanced search feature, on the other hand, offers more refined search capabilities, including the ability to search by location. By utilizing these advanced options, users can tailor their search queries to yield more accurate and relevant results, ultimately making it easier to find and manage resources within their organization.


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Searchable Fields

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In addition to using basic search, you can use advanced search when you need to use one or more additional attributes to find what you are looking for. For example, if you want to return all people with the last name of Stone whose account is disabled, you enter Stone as the last name and set the enabled flag to false, as shown below.

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Each of the terms in the below tables can be combined with each other for more specific searches

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Attribute

Description

Search Result

DisplayName

The friendly or display name of the group

Returns all groups with the specified display name

LogonName

The logon name of the group

Returns all groups with the specified logon name

Group Type

The type of group, e.g., security universal, distribution, etc.

Returns all groups with the specified group type

By Member

Member of group

Returns all groups where the specified user is a member

By Owner

Owner of group

Returns all groups where the specified user is the owner

Notes

Notes set for the group

Returns all groups containing the specified text

Description

The description of the group

Returns all groups with the specified description

No Members

Allows you to search for groups without members; can be true, false, or null

Returns all groups with the specified membership state

Publish In IT Shop

Allows you to search for groups published in the IT Shop; can be true, false, or null

Returns all groups with the specified publish state

Is High Security Group

Allows you to search for groups flagged as high security; can be true, false, or null

Returns all groups with the specified security state

System Type

Allows you to search for groups belonging to a specific system type, such as Azure

Returns all groups belonging to the specified system type

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