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Navigating the extensive content within your video portal can be challenging, but Kaltura's search system is here to lend a hand. It swiftly searches through all the entries, pinpointing the most pertinent and valuable results aligned with your search query. This intuitive presentation ensures that you quickly locate what you're looking for.
For Administrative information on the search in KMS applications see the Kaltura Search Module - Administrator's Guide article.
For the Theming-based search page, please see our articles Global Search and Search module.
Types of search pages
You can use the Kaltura's search function in many of the video portal pages. There are four types of search pages available:
Global search
The Global Search page can be reached from the top right header. This unified search page contains not only media results, but also results for galleries and channels.
The Global Search display page is configured by your system administrator.
The image below shows the search field in the Theming UI navigation bar:
The images below show the search field in the basic UI navigation bar:
Closed:
Open:
If desired, the search bar can be removed from your homepage. Your system administrator can simply set the showNavbarSearch setting to 'No' in the Navigation module.
You can also reach the Global Search page directly with the following URL:
https://{your_KMS_URL}/esearch/search?keyword={yourkeyword}
For example: https://videos.kaltura.com/esearch/search?keyword=art
The Global Search page contains:
Media results
All media results (video, audio, image, etc.) containing the keywords are displayed on the Media Results section. More information can be found in our article How to Read the Search Results.
Channel and Gallery results
On the right side of the page, a side bar displays with MediaSpace channels and galleries results.
The top results are displayed in the side bar, with an indication of the number of channels/galleries found. If there are more than two results, you can click on the “Go to Channel/Gallery Results” to access the Channels Search or Galleries Search pages.
You can collapse the side bar by clicking the collapse button
and expand it by clicking again.
Media search
The search magnifying glass icon is also available in the following pages:
- My Media
- Channel/Gallery pages - You will find the search icon when:
- searching for content within each channel and gallery.
- adding content to the channel and gallery.
- browsing the moderated content (pending tab).
- Media page - You can search in a video’s captions if enabled.
- My History page
When searching, the media view is replaced with the search results, and the display page capabilities remain the same, for example, the Approve and Reject buttons in the Pending tab are displayed for the returned results.
Channels search
To search in a channel, navigate to the “All channels” or “My Channels”. You can also reach the Channels Search page from the Global Search. See My Channels for information on searching in a channel.
Galleries search
Access to the dedicated page for searching through galleries can be reached via the Global Search. See the Global Search section, or you can access the Galleries Search page with the following direct link:
https://{your_KMS_URL}/esearch/search-galleries?keyword={yourkeyword}
For example: https://videos.kaltura.com/esearch/esearch/search-galleries?keyword=cat
For information about searching in galleries, see Search in galleries.
