One of the key strengths of Artesia DAM is its capability for finding and displaying assets using a variety of search options including keyword, favorite, category, project and participant, federated, advanced and expert search. Two of the most common methods of searching for assets are keyword and category searches.

Keyword Search

Keyword searching is the process of looking for assets whose metadata or asset content contains a particular word or phrase. Artesia Search automatically indexes asset metadata upon import of assets. Subsequent keyword uses this index to return appropriate assets but also can be set to search for synonyms and plural forms of the keyword. The search results can be sorted by any associated metadata field and quickly refined with the ability to search within the search results.

Category Search

Category Search allows the user to navigate through and view assets by category. The Categories Search page represents a hierarchy of categories. The user can select a displayed category to continue to browse the category hierarchy, or the user can search for a specific category by typing a word into the Find Category Name field and clicking the Find button.

Saving Searches, Sorting, and Refining

Users also have a wide range of capabilities available to them once a search is performed and they have a set of search results. Searches can be saved and search results can be filtered, sorted or exported with a wide range of options available for each.

For example, after performing a search, from the Search Results page the user can sort the results by using the Sort By prompt or the user can further refine the user search by using the Refine prompt.