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Kaltura offers a powerful search function in the My Media section of your video portal, making it easy to locate items quickly. Once you learn how to do a basic search, you can learn how to use special search parameters, tools, and filters to get the most helpful results.
These instructions are for Theming users. For non-Theming users, please see our article Search in My Media.
Access My Media
- Select My Media from the user drop-down menu.
The My Media page displays. 
The My Media page displays. 
Search and filter
To search for content, enter your keyword(s) in the search field. As you type, you will see your search history if you have any. If you hover, you'll see an 'x', which you can click to remove the search from your 'previous searches'.
Press Enter on your keyboard to activate the search. The number of results are displayed to the right of the search field.
You can access advanced search options for specific fields by clicking the gear icon. (The gear icon won't be visible unless a search term is entered.)
The gear icon opens a drop-down menu with filters allowing you to search for the term in one of these specific fields:
- All fields
- Title
- Description
- Tags
- Chapters / Slides
- Captions
- Polls
- Quiz (results from quiz questions and answers)
- Comments
Please note Playlists are not currently searchable in the video portal.
Use the filters beneath the search field to refine, sort, and adjust your search. For example, you can filter by the Publish status of a media item, as shown below:
You can also filter according to Scheduling, as shown below:
Filters are configured by your administrator in the Search module.
To learn more about the search and filter functions, check out our article Global search. The Publish status and Scheduling filters are exclusive to the My Media page and are not available on the global search page.
