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Use Domino’s search feature to locate specific files or pieces of text across your entire deployment. Domino indexes a variety of content in the platform, such as Projects, files, Jobs, Models, Comments, and NetApp Volumes. Domino limits the search based on the collaboration and privacy settings for projects. For example, if you do not have read access to a project, then that project is never listed in your search results. NetApp Volume results are filtered by NetApp Volume permissions instead: only volumes your account can access appear. One advanced feature at the intersection of search and permissions is that Projects can be set to be Searchable. If a Project is set to be Searchable, then it appears in search results for anyone, but its contents are visible only to explicit collaborators. This is a useful feature if you want to encourage the discovery of work even when that work might be sensitive. With this setting, data scientists could know that relevant past work exists. They would just have to request access to see it. Still, that might prevent wasted effort reinventing the wheel.
if you have git repos attached to your Projects, Domino does not index the contents of those repos.

Use the search feature

  1. In the top navigation pane, type your query into the Search bar. The search results are listed by source, including project names, files, runs, comments, and more.
When Domino searches files, it returns results found in both filenames and file contents. However, Domino only indexes the latest revisions of files, so the search results do not contain occurrences of your search term from previous versions.

Search NetApp Volumes

Domino matches NetApp Volumes on the volume name, description, filesystem name, owner username, associated project names, and any taxonomy Tag labels, tag descriptions, and Property values on the volume. A result links to the volume’s overview page and shows the owner, description, associated projects, and creation date. Access is enforced per user. NetApp Volume permissions are independent of project permissions, so access to a project does not grant access to the volumes attached to it. A volume appears in your results only when you have at least the Reader role on it.

Filter results by tag

Tags classify assets under a shared, controlled vocabulary, and search reads them. Narrow a result set to one or more tags from the filter side panel beside your results, or type the tag straight into the search bar.

Advanced search options

You can use the following commands in your queries to target your search:
  • project.tag=
  • project.description=
  • project.name=
  • project.user=
  • volume.name=
  • volume.description=
  • volume.filesystemName=
  • volume.ownerUsername=
  • volume.projectName=

Search configuration

Four configuration records control what Domino indexes. Contact Domino Support to read or change them.

Next steps

Learn about other ways Domino streamlines collaboration:
Last modified on September 9, 2026