# Content Finder

Learn how to use Content Finder in Hygraph to quickly search and access content across supported text fields. See how results rank by relevance, and what permissions apply. Understand its limitations and how search indexing keeps results up to date.

## Overview

Content Finder lets you quickly search across all content in your environment, including text fields in models and nested components.
The Content Finder search shows a list of all content entries in your environment that match the search terms, listing the most relevant ones at the top, while searching through Single Line, Multi-Line, Markdown, and RichText fields.

## Using Content Finder

1. Click the icon next to `Search` in the top bar or open the Command Menu with `CMD+K` (or CTRL+K in Windows).
2. Type keywords in the search field and click enter.
3. Select a content entry from the results list to access it in the Content Editor.

[Video: How to use Content Finder](https://eu-central-1-shared-euc1-02.graphassets.com/AvHQ3RDvFSousA8iwElOKz/cmbeu4j1l2ng007w1a0kpzwci)

The results list shows the top-matching content entries at the top, and you can access any of them with a click. If you need to access another content entry that has the specified search term, click `Search` or open the Command Menu to view the search results again.

**Pro Tip:**

- Content Finder's search index refreshes when you make content or schema changes, ensuring the search results are always up-to-date.
- Content Finder supports Single-Line, Multi-Line, Markdown, and Rich Text fields.

Content Finder will search all supported fields, not just the title:

![Content Finder search results](https://hygraph.com/images/docs/user-guides/content-finder/content-finder-search-results.png)

It helps editors easily identify the content entry they're looking for.

**Did you open the wrong content entry?:**

The Command Menu - where you will find the Content Finder feature - keeps your results until you start a new search, so you can open it again and continue looking through your results list.

## Search results & permissions

Content Finder shows results depending on the permissions the user has. For instance, if an Editor only has `READ` permissions for two models, the search results will only show those two models.

However, conditional permissions are not yet supported.

## Content Finder limitations

Content Finder has the following limitations:

- Content Finder only supports exact matches. For instance, if you look for “portrait” rather than “portraits”, only results with the word “portrait” in them will display.
- Content Finder shows a maximum of 20 results at a time. You need to click Load more to see additional results.
- Custom roles with conditional content permissions cannot search through models where [conditions](https://hygraph.com/docs/getting-started/access-and-permissions/content-api-permissions#use-conditions) apply. They can only search models where they have unconditional read access. System roles (Admins, Developers, Editors, Contributors) can search across all models, as they have full read access to all entries.