# HOME-SEARCH Placeholder

## Overview

AyaNova has a search form available by selecting the Search option in the [context menu](ay-start-form-overview.md#form-context-menu)

Explain search phrase entry, stopwords etc

Searches are contains by default, case insensitive always.
Wildcards are supported for start and end of words but no point in doing both ends for contains as that is the default
multiple space seperated phrases are supported and are always inclusive (AND), i.e. "cotton fish" finds only records with both cotton and fish in them

All text on object is search indexed including tags.
In cases where there is a identifying number on an object such as an ID or serial number that is also indexed for search, however currency amounts are not indexed

To save bandwidth excerpts are not automatically retrieved but only on demand when user requests for a search result



There is no facility or setting to search case sensitive, it's just not an option with text indexing we have and differs from picklist which does have a server setting to control that.
