Hudu's search helps you quickly find information across your documentation, whether you're searching globally or within a specific company. Search lives in an anchored panel in the top navbar for quick lookups, and a full-page advanced search experience is available when you need deeper filtering.
Visit Typesense for additional information on the search engine powering Hudu's results.
Guides
Opening and navigating search
Open search in one of two ways:
- Click the search box in the top toolbar, or
- Press the
/keyboard shortcut.
The search panel expands in place in the navbar and drops results down below the input, so the rest of the page stays visible behind it. Once open, start typing to search across your data. To move through results:
-
Up/Downarrow keys — move through results. -
Enter— open the selected result. - Or click a result directly with your mouse.
To close the panel, press ESC or click anywhere outside of it.
On smaller screens, search still opens as a full-width takeover for easier use on mobile and tablet.
Search options
Within the search panel, you can:
- Choose Comprehensive Search to broaden your results.
- Toggle whether to include museum items in your results.
Searching within a company
When you're viewing a specific company, a scope dropdown appears next to the search input so you can change what's being searched without starting your search over:
- By default you'll see an option to search only within that company; change the scope to search across all data instead.
- Press
ALT+Gto quickly toggle the scope between company-only and global search.
Setting default search preferences
You can configure default search behavior in your User Profile settings, so you don't have to adjust options every time:
- Default to comprehensive — automatically enables comprehensive search for all queries.
- Default to global — includes all companies by default, instead of limiting to a specific company.
These act as your baseline whenever you open search, and you can still override them on a per-search basis.
Advanced search
For a full-page search experience with deeper filtering, open advanced search:
- Click the Advanced search link next to the result count in the search panel, which carries over anything you've already typed and any active filters.
- Press
Shift+/from anywhere in the app. - Navigate directly to /advanced_search, or bookmark and share a search URL with your team.
The advanced search page includes:
- Record type tabs — Companies, Assets, Passwords, Articles, Processes, and Websites, each showing a live count of matching results. The Companies tab reflects whatever your account calls them (e.g. Clients, Organizations).
- Search-as-you-type results in the same familiar row format as the search panel, with a header showing the result count and record type.
- Filters that change based on the active tab: Comprehensive search, Include museum, Within (filter by company), Asset Layout (Assets tab), and Company Type (Companies tab). Filters apply immediately and are preserved when switching tabs. Use Clear All to reset them.
The URL updates in real time as you search, switch tabs, or change filters, so refreshing the page or using back/forward restores your exact search state.
On smaller screens, tabs and filters collapse into slide-in drawers, opened with a hamburger icon (tabs) and a filter icon (filters).
Tools
Hudu integrates with Typesense to power its search, providing fast and relevant results across your documentation. For users who want to go beyond basic search, Typesense offers advanced capabilities such as:
- Fine-tuned query matching
- Filtering and faceting
- Relevance tuning
- Advanced search parameters and operators
See Hudu's Typesense article, or the official Typesense documentation, for additional information.
FAQ
Yes — press / to open search from anywhere. Press Shift + / to jump straight to the full advanced search page.
Change the scope dropdown next to the search input away from company-only, or press ALT + G to toggle to global search. To make global the default, enable Default to global in your User Profile settings.
It broadens the scope of your results beyond the standard search. You can enable it per search, or set Default to comprehensive in your User Profile settings. It's also available as a filter on the advanced search page.
The navbar search panel is best for quick lookups as you type. Advanced search opens a dedicated full page with record type tabs, per-tab filters like Asset Layout and Company Type, live result counts, and a shareable/bookmarkable URL — better suited to digging through larger result sets.