Search cards

Create a custom hub to organize all your work in a way that makes sense for your team! Search cards are available for Dashboards and Overviews. 

Take a look at our article, Intro to cards to learn about all the available Dashboard and Overview cards.  

What you'll need

Prebuilt Search cards

This article is about the customizable Search card.

There are also three prebuilt Search-type cards:

  • Most Popular: Create a list of items trending in a location or the entire Workspace. 
  • My Trending Work: Create a list of trending tasks assigned to you. 
  • New Content: Create a list of the most recently created content. 

After you select one of these cards, it automatically populates with data from that location. These cards can be added to Overviews and Dashboards

Create a Search card

Use the Search card to create a dynamic list of items from your Workspace and connected apps. Then, using keywords you can search the items for specific info.

Search cards can be added to Overviews and Dashboards. 

To create a Search card: 

  1. Open an Overview or create or open an existing Dashboard.
  2. In the Add card modal, select Custom then click Search

Create a Search card

Search cards are customizable. You need to set them up before you can use them. To create a Search card:

Setting Description
Name

By default, the card is named Search

You can add a name when creating the card or later. 

What do you want to search for?

ClickUp: By default tasks, Docs, and files are searched for. 

You can select or deselect one or more of the following ClickUp items:

  • Tasks
  • Docs
  • Files
  • Dashboards
  • Whiteboards
  • Forms

Apps: By default, all available apps are searched for. 

You can deselect one or more of the following apps:

  • Figma
  • G-Drive
  • GitHub
  • Box
  • Confluence
  • Dropbox

These apps must be integrated with ClickUp and enabled for use with Connected Search to access them with the Search card. 

Location 

For ClickUp items only

You can add this card to an Overview or a Dashboard. 

You can create this card from a Space, Folder, or List.

Assignees

For ClickUp items only

By default, no assignees are selected.

You can select one or more assignees.

You can also select Me Mode to filter for the person viewing the view. 

Keyword

Enter a keyword.

For example, you add this card to a Space Overview. You can enter the keyword Project A to find all of the items in this Space related to Project A. 

Sort

You can sort by:

  • Relevance
  • Last Updated
  • Last Created
  • Your Recents
  • Trending in Workspace

Use a Search card

The following table details which actions are available from the created card:

Actions Description

Open Item

 Click the item. 

Open in new tab or Copy link

Hover to the right of the item's name and click the open or copy icon.

View card in full screen

In the upper-right corner of the card, click the double-arrow icon.

Keyword Search

Click the magnifying glass icon to filter the items by keyword. 

Sort by

Sort by Relevance, Last Updated, Last Created, Your Recents, Trending in Workspace.

Edit card settings

Click the gear icon to edit the card settings.

Duplicate card or Delete card

In the upper-right corner of the card, click the ellipsis ... icon and choose an option.

 

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