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Quick Search

How to use and configure Quick Search.

Quick Search saves each member of your team 30+ minutes per day by reducing the time it takes to look up information. Highlight or copy anything — an account number, an error code, a ticket ID — right-click, and search any tool your team uses.

Getting Started

  1. Install the Context Menu Enterprise Chrome extension.
  2. Copy some text or highlight it in your browser.
  3. Right-click, open the Context Menu Enterprise menu, pick a search, and choose Search with Clipboard or Search with Selected.

Adding Custom Searches

  1. Open the extension's Options & Configuration page.
  2. Select Quick Search from the menu.
  3. Click + Add Search.
  4. Enter a Search Title (how it appears in your right-click menu) and a Search URL — the website's search endpoint with the query replaced by a placeholder.
URL placeholders: use searchterms, %s, {value}, or <value> anywhere in the URL — each occurrence is replaced with your search query.

Example: Salesforce

  1. Identify your base URL, e.g. https://yourorg.lightning.force.com
  2. Find the search URL format. For Salesforce: /_ui/search/ui/UnifiedSearchResults?str=<query>&searchAll=true#
  3. Replace the query with a placeholder: /_ui/search/ui/UnifiedSearchResults?str=%s&searchAll=true#
  4. Combine: https://yourorg.lightning.force.com/_ui/search/ui/UnifiedSearchResults?str=%s&searchAll=true#

Finding a Search URL

Most search URLs are found by working backward: perform a search manually, copy the URL the site produces, and replace your query with a placeholder. If the query doesn't appear in the URL, look for a share button (Kibana works this way). If you can't figure out a search URL, contact support and we'll investigate — some tools require an API instead, and we may be able to help.

Bundle Searches

Bundles perform multiple searches at the same time with a single click.

  1. Pick an existing search (or add a new one).
  2. Click Add Bundle Search — a new empty Search URL field appears below.
  3. Add as many additional searches as you need, title the bundle, and Save.

Why bundles matter

When troubleshooting, teams typically check the same set of resources for every issue: documentation, log occurrences, Stack Overflow, GitHub issues, JIRA, the internal wiki. A bundle opens every resource in your troubleshooting methodology at once — saving time and ensuring every step of your SOP is actually followed.

Chain

A chained search automatically follows a link on the results page. Configure a CSS selector under Chain (optional) on any simple engine row: after the search page loads, the extension finds that element and navigates to its link — landing you on the target record in one click instead of search-then-click.

Sigma Series Searches (Advanced)

A sigma series search dynamically formats a series of space-separated values into your search URL — paste a column of account IDs and search them all at once.

  1. Add a search and obtain the URL of a working manual search.
  2. Replace the query values with %s or searchterms.
  3. Place your cursor directly before the placeholder and click Add Σ Series.
  4. Optionally add a prefix between Σ and the placeholder.

Default behavior inserts a comma between each value. With a prefix, ∑account:%s produces account:<value 1>, account:<value 2>, ...

Organizing Your Menu

Settings

Sharing With Your Team

Use Import/Export to share menu configurations, or better, use Team Config to publish one configuration your whole team syncs automatically.

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