# Find anything with search

> One search box reaches people, aircraft, bookings and pages. What it returns depends on your role, so two people searching the same word see different things.

Source: https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/getting-started/find-anything
Section: Getting started. For: Owners, Admins, Dispatchers, Instructors, Students, Renters, Technicians.

Press **⌘K** (Ctrl+K on Windows) anywhere, or click the search field in the topbar. Pages
appear under **Go to**, records appear underneath grouped by type. In the iOS app it is the
**Search** button in the chrome.

## What one search covers

Two halves, always in the same order.

**Go to** is the console's own pages, including each Settings section by name. Up to five
show at once, ranked so a page whose name starts with what you typed wins.

**Records** are the things in your school, grouped by type:

People, Aircraft, Reservations, Squawks, Training records, Currencies, Endorsements,
Documents, Courses, Announcements, Locations, Ratings.

## Narrow it to one type

Type a prefix, or click one of the suggested filter chips:

| Type this   | You get                 |
| ----------- | ----------------------- |
| `people:`   | Members and guests only |
| `aircraft:` | Tails only              |
| `flights:`  | Reservations only       |
| `squawks:`  | Squawks only            |
| `training:` | Training records only   |

The prefix becomes a chip. Press **Backspace** on an empty query to drop it and search
everything again.

## It finds pages by what they do

You do not have to know our name for a screen. "Go no go" finds Compliance, "squawk" finds
Maintenance, "syllabus" finds Training. If you can describe the job, the search can usually
find the page.

## What happens when you pick a result

- A page navigates there, including an individual Settings section.
- A record opens it.
- A record with no page of its own lands you on the list that owns it, with the search
  already filled in. Simulators and rooms work this way, since they have no record page.

## Two people searching the same word see different things

Results are scoped to your roles, so search never shows you something you could not open
anyway.

- Squawks are searchable only by staff and technicians.
- Courses are searchable only by somebody who can configure training.
- Your own currencies, documents, training record and endorsements are always searchable.
  Other people's depend on your role.

> **Careful:** Training is scoped differently from everything else, and it catches people out. A dispatcher
> can search another member's documents and currencies but **not** their training records. An
> instructor is the exact opposite: training records yes, documents no. If a search comes back
> empty for somebody else's record, this is usually why.

## If you cannot find something at all

- Archived members are excluded from the roster by default. Set the **Roster** filter on
  `People` (web console) to **Archived**.
- A record belongs to one school. If you belong to two, check you are in the right one from
  the switcher at the top of the left rail.