Finding things with search

Vilvik has two places to type a query and get instant suggestions: the search box in the top navbar (on every page after you sign in) and the search box on the documentation pages.

The navbar search¶

The search box at the top of every signed-in page covers six categories at once:

• Your submissions. Matches the submission name, description, notes, or the public id.
• Your results. Matches the result name or the public id.
• Your problems. Matches the name or description of a saved Problem Builder template.
• Public users. Other Vilvik users who have published at least one public submission. See Sharing a submission or result publicly for how publishing a submission works.
• Docs. The same pages you can browse from What is Vilvik?. Matches titles, descriptions, and body text.
• Demos. The interactive demos catalog.

Type at least two characters and the dropdown opens with up to five hits per category. Section headers tell you which bucket each hit belongs to. The matching word or phrase is highlighted in every row, including a short context excerpt under each result so you can see why the row was returned without having to open it.

Keyboard works the way you would expect:

• Down arrow moves focus into the result list.
• Enter opens the highlighted result, or the first result if you haven't moved focus yet.
• Escape clears the input and closes the dropdown.

What stays private¶

The dropdown only ever lists submissions, results, and problem templates that you own. It will never show another user's private work, no matter what you type. Other users surface only in the Public users row, and only if they have made at least one submission public.

Multi-word queries and small typos¶

The search is tolerant. Type two words like genetic algorithm and pages that mention both anywhere are ranked higher than pages that mention only one. Small typos still match, so genteic algoritm finds the same pages as the correct spelling.

View all results¶

The last row of the dropdown is a "View all results" link. Click it to open a full results page with up to 50 hits per category, a refine input at the top, and a Showing first 50 note on any category that hit the cap. Refining the query reloads the page in place.

The docs search¶

On any page under /docs/, there is a search box in the sidebar (and a larger one on the docs landing page). It searches every doc page only. The dropdown shows up to twenty matches, each with the matching phrase highlighted and a snippet of the surrounding sentence.

The docs dropdown also has a View all results link at the bottom. Clicking it opens a docs-only results page with up to 50 hits, the same refine input pattern, and the same highlighting rules.

The docs search works without signing in, so you can use it as a fast reference even when you're not logged in.

Tips¶

• If you remember a word from the notes you attached to a submission, type it. The navbar search reads notes, so it will surface the right run.
• If the docs result you want is not visible, try a different word from the same topic. The ranking favors pages that contain more of your query words, so adding one more relevant word often promotes the right page to the top.
• Both searches preserve the original casing in the result, so pyGAD and PYGAD are treated as the same word for matching purposes.