Search and filters
Find a project across every folder, search the Archive, and change the order of the list.
On this page
The projects list carries a search box and a sort control. Both write to the page URL, so the view you are looking at is a link you can bookmark or send to someone in the same workspace.
Search your projects
The Search projects box sits at the top of /dashboard/projects, at the top of every folder page and at the top of the Archive page. Typing filters the list after a short pause, so you can keep typing without the results flickering.
Your term is written to the URL as ?q=. Clearing the box removes it again.
Search reaches across folders
This is the part worth knowing. On the projects page, searching switches the list from projects not in a folder to every project in the workspace, folders included and archived projects left out. The folder cards disappear while a search is active, because a folder card would only get in the way of results drawn from inside it.
Inside a folder page the behaviour is the opposite and deliberate: search stays scoped to that folder.
Archived projects are searched separately
Search on the projects page and on folder pages never returns an archived project. To find one, search on the Archive page at /dashboard/archive, which looks only through archived projects and matches the same fields. See Archive projects.
What search matches
A term is matched, case insensitively and anywhere in the value, against:
| Field | Example of what matches |
|---|---|
| Name | The project name you gave it |
| Description | The project description |
| Slug | The dashboard address of the project |
| Reference | The project's internal reference |
| Default subdomain | The free web address it publishes to |
| Custom domains | Any domain you connected to it |
| www domains | The www companion of any of those domains |
It also matches people. If your term matches the name, email or account of a member of the workspace, every project they created or last edited is returned. Searching a colleague's name is a quick way to see what they have been working on.
Pasting a project ID finds that project directly.
When nothing matches
You get an empty state titled No results with the line Try a different name or clear search.
Sort the list
The dropdown next to the search box sets the order. It has six options:
| Option | Order |
|---|---|
| Latest Updated | Most recently changed first, the default |
| Oldest Updated | Least recently changed first |
| Latest Created | Newest project first |
| Oldest Created | Oldest project first |
| Name Ascending | A to Z |
| Name Descending | Z to A |
The choice is written to the URL as ?sort=. Picking Latest Updated removes the parameter again, since it is the default. An unrecognised value in the URL falls back to the default rather than erroring.
Sorting and searching combine, and both survive a reload.
Loading more
Projects load eight at a time as you reach the bottom of the list. Placeholder cards appear for the ones still coming, so the grid does not jump.
Changing the search term, the sort, the folder or the workspace clears the list and starts again from the top.
The home page list
The My projects tab on /dashboard is a fixed view: it always shows the most recently updated projects from across every folder, leaving out archived ones, and it has no search or sort of its own. View all takes you to /dashboard/projects where the controls live.
Templates search is separate
The Search templates box on the Templates page uses the same URL parameter but searches the public gallery on name, description and category. It does not look at your own projects.
Next
- Folders covers grouping projects so there is less to search through.
- Projects explains what each card and menu item does.
- Archive projects covers the projects that search on the projects page leaves out.