# Search across your workspace

> The search box on Home matches an object's owner, space, dataset, tags, and column names — not just its title — and takes operators like author: and type: to narrow the results.

Getting started · 3 min read · Updated 2026-09-23

The search box in Explore on your Home page finds the things you've made. It used to match only a title or description, so an analysis you remembered by its dataset, its owner, or a column in it could stay hidden. Search now reads everything an object knows about itself, ranks the best matches first, and takes operators when you want to be precise. The same box in Favorites and the spaces list works the same way.

## What search looks at

A single search now checks each of these, and a match anywhere counts:

- Name and description.
- Owner - who made it.
- Space - which space it lives in.
- Dataset - the data behind an analysis or dashboard.
- Type - analysis, dashboard, dataset, connection.
- Tags on a dataset.
- Connection - the connector or database behind it.
- Sheets inside an analysis.
- Column names in the underlying data.

Several words are combined with AND, and each word can land in a different place — so "sales funnel" finds a funnel chart built on the sales dataset, even though no single field holds both words. Results lead with the best match rather than the most recently used, unless you've picked an explicit sort (by name, created date, space, or creator), which always wins.

## Narrow with operators

Put a field name and a colon in front of a term to require the match to land in that field:

- `author:` (also `owner:`, `by:`) - who made it.
- `space:` (also `workspace:`) - which space it lives in.
- `type:` - the object kind, like analysis, dashboard, or dataset.
- `dataset:` (also `data:`) - the data behind it.
- `tag:` - a dataset tag.
- `column:` (also `field:`) - a column name.

Wrap a value in quotes when it has a space in it — `author:"Jane Patel"`. You can combine an operator with plain words (`type:dashboard revenue`), and a prefix Golden doesn't recognize is treated as ordinary search text rather than an empty filter.

> **Tip:** When a match is somewhere the card doesn't show — a column name, a tag, the dataset behind it — the card tells you what it matched, and the matching text is highlighted in the name and owner. If a search finds nothing, Golden offers the operators as chips you can click to build a more specific query.

Source: https://goldenanalytics.com/docs/search-your-workspace