The Search Panel

The search panel is the fastest way to get anywhere in livediagram. It is one box that searches across everything you can reach and, when you are in the editor, can act on the canvas too. The scope adapts to where you are, so the same panel finds a diagram from the Explorer and an element from inside a board.

Opening and closing search

• Keyboard: press Ctrl / Cmd + . from anywhere in the editor. (It is . rather than T because browsers reserve Cmd+T for a new browser tab.)
• Button: click the Search button in the footer toolbar.

The panel pops up near the top of the screen and blurs the canvas behind it so you can focus on the query. Press Esc or click outside to close it. Search only ever navigates or adds, it never edits what is already there, so it is available even in read-only views.

What search covers

Type a few letters and matches appear, grouped by what they are. What is in scope depends on where you open it:

• Always: your diagrams and folders, and the diagrams shared with you.
• When signed in: your teams and their shared folders and diagrams.
• Inside a diagram: also the tabs and elements of the current diagram, including text inside table cells.

Beyond navigation

In the editor the panel does more than jump around:

• Add to the canvas: search the palette and drop a shape or icon straight onto the board.
• Create a new tab: an action result that spins up a fresh tab.

Picking a result

Results are ordered by group, and the very first match is preselected, so for the common case you can just type and press Enter. Otherwise click a row, or arrow down to it and press Enter. Picking a result takes you exactly where it points: opening a diagram, switching to a tab, selecting an element, or jumping to a team.