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Searching Outlaw

The search bar at the top of the app. Search the page you're on or everything in your firm, and fine-tune how words match.

The search bar at the top of Outlaw Practice works two ways: it can narrow the page you’re on, or it can find anything in your firm and take you straight to it.

The icon at the left end of the search bar shows which mode you’re in, and selecting it opens a menu with both choices:

  • Search this page (a magnifying glass): as you type, the lists on the current page narrow to the entries that match.
  • Search everything (a globe): as you type, a list of matches from across your firm opens below the bar.

Outlaw remembers the mode you chose for your account. It’s still selected after you reload the page, and in other browser tabs where you’re signed in to the same account.

On a phone, select the icon once to open the search bar, then again to choose the mode.

Search Everything

Matches are grouped by kind, so you can tell a contact from a case at a glance:

  • Contacts, Cases, Leads, Campaigns, and Events, up to five of each. A case also matches when one of its clients’ names matches, and an event shows the case it belongs to.
  • Reports whose names match.
  • Configuration: Settings pages whose names match. Only administrators see these.
  • Support pages, and the My Profile and Billing dialogs (Billing for firm owners only).

Select a match to open it. From the keyboard, use the up and down arrow keys to move through the list and press Enter to open the highlighted match. Press Esc to clear the search.

Search Options

Select the gear at the right end of the search bar to adjust how words match:

  • Use Fuzzy Search: finds near matches, so a typo or a partial spelling still turns up what you meant.
  • Match All Terms: on by default. With it on, every word you type must match. Turn it off to find entries that match any of your words.
  • Case Sensitive: matches capital and lowercase letters exactly.
  • Match Whole Words: matches only complete words, so “art” doesn’t find “Stewart”.

Case Sensitive and Match Whole Words aren’t available while fuzzy search is on.

Many tables also have a search box of their own that searches just that table. See Data Tables.