You can initiate a search from the Search tab or from the Quick Search field on any page in the TCM application.
What kind of search do you want to perform?
By default, when you use the Search tab while displaying the TCM application Home tab, you are searching the entire object store for objects that match the criteria you enter.
When you select the Search tab from within a teamspace, you can refine your search to return only the results you are interested in. You can select a specific type of object (poll, meeting, etc.) and you can limit the scope of your search to the current teamspace or include the entire object store.
Quick Search performs a search based on the context from which it was called. For example, if you are viewing the Tasks page, Quick Search searches for tasks in the current teamspace that match the keyword or words. If you are on the overview page for a teamspace, Quick Search searches the teamspace for all objects that match the specified keyword. Use Quick Search from the Home tab (that is, when you are not in a teamspace) to search the entire object store.
See also Using Quick Search and Search tab for more information.
Before you can use the Search functionality, your system administrator must configure and enable content-based retrieval (CBR) for the collaboration object store. See Configuring CBR to support searching in TCM for instructions.
Search automatically ignores words entered as search criteria that appear in the exception word list. These words, contained in an exception word list, are considered "noise" words
Search is useful when you want to build a list of related links. When you perform a search, you can add items from the results list to the clipboard. (Select the radio button next to the item in the list, then click the copy to clipboard action.) Once you have added all the items you want, you can navigate to another object, then use add related links to insert items from the clipboard.