Search on! Surface everything with elasticsearch

As part of our series of enhancements to help you dig and sift through your product backlog, we’re very proud to launch the latest: A massively improved search tool.

What’s so great about it?

Well, it’s based on elasticsearch, an open source, distributed search engine built on top of Apache Lucene.

But really, we know you care about what it’ll do for you, rather than what it’s running on. Here’s some of the ways it’s better:

• Highlighted search results, so you can easily pick out the terms you were looking for
• Combine search results with filters on Tags, Products, and User Personas
• “Stemming” – Can’t remember whether it was ‘notification’ or ‘notify’ you’d entered in? Search for either, and the idea will surface.
• “Fuzzy match” – Our forgiving search will figure out what you might have meant to type, and find the best matches possible.
• Full text search – We used to only search on the overview of the idea, but now you can search through comments and through specs, such as the business case, functional specs, or user stories.

We hope that these changes will help you and your team find exactly what you were looking for, when tackling your growing product backlog.

So go on, try a search or two! Head to your Dashboard to try.