Ability to see search terms

ccorbishley
Kilo Explorer

Hi Folks,

Has anyone got a way to see what people are searching for on CMS or global search?   i want to know common search terms also if there are searches out there that are not returning any results so we can determine if we have a knowledge or catalogue item gap etc..., etc...

I know i can get this for knowledge searches but i wanted it more general searches

Any thoughts

Thanks

Chris

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Michael Ritchie
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

All the text searches including Knowledge are stored in the text_search table.   Type in text_search.list in your filter text to go to this table's list to see the search terms.


tltoulson
Kilo Sage

As Michael indicated, the text_search table contains a good bit of information about search terms and their results (good for finding searches that yielded no results).   You can also look at the ts_search_summary table which lists search terms against various tables and the frequency of the search terms (good for determining which terms are frequently searched).   This powers the Top Searches homepage.   Between those two tables, you should get all the info you need to target gaps.



In case you wonder about Global Search, in ServiceNow API terms, there is actually no truly global search.   The "Global Search" is actually a series of table based full text searches.   So if you configure the Global Search to display Knowledge and Incidents, the Global Search actually performs 2 text searches, one on each table.   So in the text_search table, when you perform a Global Search, you will see a new entry for each table.