How to use user interface search?

Content searches have the following default selections limiting the search:

• content type: service, all five different types of service channels, organisational data
• organisation: your own organisation
• content status: draft, published
• order: latest first.

If you make the search with these default selections, you will get all draft or published contents of your own organisation, starting with the most recent. 

Click Search to make the search. Click Clear to clear the search result and any filters you have used.  

You do not need to use search words as you can also make a filter-based search.

If you want to use search words,

1. use the drop-down menu at Select field to specify your search
2. enter an appropriate string as the search word.

You can base the search on a word part. Do not use * to break a word.

You can search with a content name, phone number, email address or an FSC identifier (ID).

If you make a content name search, you get search results displaying contents with the specified string in their Name or Alternative name fields.

If you make a phone number search, you get search results displaying contents with the specified phone number in their phone number fields.

If you make an email address search, you get search results displaying services or service channels with the specified email address in their email address fields. The results of the email address search will also display editors’ email addresses.

You can also make a search based on content FSC identifiers (IDs). You can find the FSC identifier in the Suomi.fi Web Service at the end of the service or service channel page address.

Click Edit filters to specify the search or change the search filters.

The Filter search results view that opens displays a number of filtering options. You can make a wide variety of different searches by combining the filtering options available to you. 

Under Display, you can 

• limit the search to the contents of your own organisation 
• limit the search to contents that you have created or edited 
• search for contents of all organisations
•  search for contents of several organisations that you have selected. 

Under Content status, you can select whether to search for

• published contents,
• draft contents or
• archived contents.

You can select all status for your search or specify the number of status for your search. 

Under Specify search you can use the drop-down menu to select the content types for your search. You can search for all content types or limit the search to services, service channels or general descriptions. 

If your select all content types (default) you can limit the search to specific content types. 

You can limit the search to 

• services of different types (ordinary service, permit or obligation, professional qualification) 
• all service channels  
• each service channel type separately (e-service, website, printable form, phone service, service location)  
• organisations 
• general descriptions  
• service collections. 

If you limit the search to services or general descriptions, additional filtering options are displayed. You can limit the search in accordance with a service type (service, professional qualification or permit or other obligation), service class, target group, keyword and industrial class. 

If you limit the search to general descriptions, you are provided with an additional filtering option: general description area type, or the types of organisation for which the general description is intended (municipalities and wellbeing services counties, regional business services, or Evangelical Lutheran parishes). 

Click Order to determine in which order the search result is displayed. You can select alphabetical order in either direction or chronological order in either direction. 

After adding the filters, click Filter to make the search. 

Click Cancel to clear the filter changes that you have made. Click Edit filters to make filter changes again.  

The search results show the following content details:

• organisation
• content name
• content type and status
• published languages/draft languages/ archived languages
• last time the contents were edited and the user ID of the person making the most recent edits.

Search result languages 

In the search result, the content name is always primarily displayed in the language that you use in the FSC user interface even if you made the search in another language.  

Example: You use the user interface in Finnish and you are searching for contents with a Swedish search word. The search results will be displayed in Finnish even if they were also available in Swedish.