Search Rencore Governance
AI summary
Search finds inventories, segments, reports, policies, automations, reviews and provisioning templates across your Environment from one place, regardless of which area each item lives in. Results respect your permissions and are grouped by type. Search does not cover Microsoft 365 data, dashboards, or templates from libraries.
Search finds the inventories, segments, reports, policies, automations, reviews and provisioning templatesProvisioning templateA provisioning template defines how a new Microsoft 365 workspace is created through Rencore Governance.Read more in your current EnvironmentEnvironmentAn Environment is the connected Microsoft 365 tenant inside a Workspace.Read more from one place. You do not need to know which area an item lives in.
Before you begin
- Search only shows items your role already has permission to see. If your role cannot open an area, for example AutomationAutomationAn automation is a workflow Rencore Governance runs on inventory objects when a trigger fires.Read more, that area is not offered in search. See Default Roles and Permissions.
Steps
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In the left navigation, click Search, directly below Home. The search window opens on top of the current page, with the cursor in the search box. The box lists what you can search, for example “Search InventoryInventoryThe inventory is the record of every object Rencore Governance scans from your tenant, with their properties and the relations between them.Read more, Reports, Policies, Automations, Review, Provisioning”.

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Type at least two characters of the item’s title or description. Results update as you type.
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Click a result to open it. The search window closes and Rencore Governance opens the item.
Search is not case-sensitive and matches any part of a title or description. For example, “owner” finds “TeamsMicrosoft TeamsMicrosoft Teams is the Microsoft 365 app for chat, meetings and team collaboration.Read more with very few owners”. It matches what you type as one phrase, so “guest teams” does not find “Teams with guests”.
What you see
Results are grouped by type, in the same order as the left navigation: Inventory, Reports, Policies, Automations, Review and Provisioning.

- Within a group, items whose title matches come first, then items where only the description matches. Items whose title starts with your term come before other title matches.
- Each group shows up to five results. The number next to the group name is the total number of matches.
- When a group has more than five matches, click Show all in the group header to see every match of that type.
- The row above the results shows “All” and one entry for each type, with its number of matches. Click a type to see only its results. Click “All” to go back.
- The matching text is highlighted in each result.
- The total number of results is shown at the bottom of the window.
If nothing matches, the window shows No matches for and the term you searched for. Try a shorter or different term.
Items marked off
A result marked “Off” exists in your Environment but is turned off, for example a disabled policy, segment or review. Automations and provisioning templates that have errors are also marked “Off”.
Use the keyboard
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Arrow Down, Arrow Up | Move through the results |
| Enter | Open the selected result |
| Tab, Shift+Tab | Move between the result types |
| Esc | Close the search window |
Clicking outside the search window also closes it. When you open Search again, it starts empty.
Limits
Search covers the items in your current Environment:
- Inventories, such as Teams or Users, and their segments
- Reports
- Policies
- Automations
- Reviews
- Provisioning templates
Search does not cover:
- Your Microsoft 365Microsoft 365Microsoft 365 is the Microsoft cloud suite of Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange and the Office apps.Read more data, such as users, teams, sites, groups or files. To find these, use the Datagrid search in the Inventory.
- DashboardsDashboardA dashboard groups reports, policies and KPIs on one page as tiles, so each stakeholder sees the governance data that matters to them.Read more.
- Templates in the template librariesTemplate libraryA template library is the catalog of prebuilt items you start from when you add something new in Rencore Governance.Read more that have not been added to your Environment.
- Other Environments or WorkspacesWorkspaceA Workspace is the top-level container in Rencore Governance. It holds the settings, users, roles and connected apps for exactly one Environment, the connected Microsoft 365 tenant.Read more. To search another Environment, switch to it first.
In a Virtual Environment, search covers Inventory, Reports and Policies only.
The search window is currently available in English only.
Frequently asked questions
Why does an area like automation not show up in search?
Search only shows items your role already has permission to see. If your role cannot open an area such as Automation, that area is not offered in search.
Why does searching for "guest teams" not find "Teams with guests"?
Search matches what you type as one phrase, so the words must appear together in that order. Search is not case-sensitive and matches any part of a title or description, so a shorter term such as "guests" would work.
How do I see all matches of one type in search?
Click Show all in the group header to see every match of that type. Each group shows up to five results, and you can also click a type in the row above the results to see only that type.
Can I use search to find users, teams or sites from Microsoft 365?
No. Search does not cover your Microsoft 365 data, such as users, teams, sites, groups or files. To find these, use the Datagrid search in the Inventory.
What does the off label on a search result mean?
A result marked Off exists in your Environment but is turned off, for example a disabled policy, segment or review. Automations and provisioning templates that have errors are also marked Off.
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