Get started with Coveo-powered search pages

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Where to start?
Query syntax overview
Search results
Search result templates
Search result quick view

Most Coveo-powered search pages built with the Atomic library are fundamentally similar. They typically consist of a search bar, a result list, and some facets. This page summarizes the features you can leverage and how you can get the most out of your Coveo-powered search page.

Where to start?

Enter keywords or expressions in the box, and then click the search button or hit Enter to get results.

Review your search results.

Use the facets to refine your results.

Query syntax overview

The following table summarizes the various ways you can make more precise queries. The query syntax is especially useful when you want to leverage the metadata that the Coveo Platform makes searchable. For more information, see Search prefixes and operators.

Example Items returned

Example	Items returned
`+work`	Items in which `work` appears. Items in which `work` doesn’t appear, but that contain words sharing the same stem, such as `workload`, `working`, and `workforce`, aren’t returned in the search results.
`"one flew over the cuckoo’s nest"`	Items containing this exact phrase.
`from:alice to:john`	Emails of which the `from` field contains `alice` and the `to` field contains `john`.
`@author=paul @title="annual report"`	Items for which the `author` and `title` fields match the specified content.
`@date>today-7d`	Items for which the date in the `date` field is more recent than the date calculated from the `today-7d` expression (that is, seven days ago).
`(report OR status) NEAR:10 financial`	Items containing the keywords matching the logic specified by the operators (`AND`, `OR`, `NOT`, `NEAR`) and optionally parenthesis. That is, items in which `report` or `status` appears within 10 words of the word `financial`.
`gr?y color`	Items containing either `gray` or `grey`, as `?` acts as a wildcard.

+work

Items in which work appears. Items in which work doesn’t appear, but that contain words sharing the same stem, such as workload, working, and workforce, aren’t returned in the search results.

"one flew over the cuckoo’s nest"

Items containing this exact phrase.

from:alice to:john

Emails of which the from field contains alice and the to field contains john.

@author=paul @title="annual report"

Items for which the author and title fields match the specified content.

@date>today-7d

Items for which the date in the date field is more recent than the date calculated from the today-7d expression (that is, seven days ago).

(report OR status) NEAR:10 financial

Items containing the keywords matching the logic specified by the operators (AND, OR, NOT, NEAR) and optionally parenthesis. That is, items in which report or status appears within 10 words of the word financial.

gr?y color

Items containing either gray or grey, as ? acts as a wildcard.

Search results

1	Number of results on the current page and in total.
2	Facet values selected.
3	Click Clear to reset all facet selections.
4	Select Relevance or Most recent to change the search result sorting.

Search result templates

Each search interface includes several search result templates that are each optimized to show the most significant metadata of a given type of item. The following example shows a YouTube video search result.

1	Item type tag
2	Icon for YouTube items
3	Video title
4	Video description excerpt
5	YouTube video metadata

Search result quick view

Clicking quick view in a Coveo search page

Click the Quick view button for a search result you want to review.

Click the title to open the item in its native application.