Manage Project Search Settings

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Requires Project - Search Settings - View, Add/Edit Permissions

Use this screen to view the current Search settings in effect for your Project.

If you have the appropriate permissions, you can manage these settings, which include the columns that are part of a Search Term Report.

Search Term Report

You can select downloaded report options for a search term report and/or select columns for the report.

Select Options for the Downloaded Report

Downloaded Report Options (.xlsx) — The following options apply to a search term report downloaded in XLSX format from the Search Summary chart on the Reports tab of a result view:

  • Include Per-Custodian Sheets (enabled by default) – By default, includes the per-Custodian sheets that apply to a search term report downloaded in the multi-tab XLSX format. If you clear this option, the downloaded Search Term Report will not include the per-Custodian sheets that apply to a given Search Term Report.
  • Include Per-Batch Sheets (enabled by default) – By default, includes the per-Batch sheets that apply to a search term report downloaded in the multi-tab XLSX format. If you clear this option, the downloaded Search Term Report will not include the per-Batch sheets that apply to a given Search Term Report.

Select Columns and Column Order for the Search Term Report

You can use this area to select columns and the column order in the search term report. Your column selections affect both the displayed search term report information shown on the Reports tab of a search result view, as well as the downloaded search term report.

This area contains the following:

  • Column Number — Indicates the position of the column in the search term report.
  • Column Name — Indicates the Digital Reef name for a column.
  • Custom Name — Use this text box if you want to supply your own column name instead of using the Digital Reef name.
  • Include in Report checkbox — Use the individual column checkboxes for all columns except Clause to determine which columns you want to include in a search term report for a search result set.

Note: The Clause column is required and is always included in the Search Term report. You cannot clear the Include in Report checkbox for the Clause column.

To perform drag-and-drop of a column to change its order, select the icon for a column and drag it to the appropriate spot in the list. This will alter the order of the column.

  • ID — An identifier for the search.
  • Clause — The search clause. This column is always included in the report to ensure that you can identify the search clause.
  • Doc Count — The number of documents or "hits" in the results that were responsive to the associated keyword or search clause. See View a Search Results Report for information on search clause reporting. This release supports top-level clauses only. If you want to search by domain lists, providing only one clause in the query for sentdomains::<domainlist> or participantdomains::<domainlist> ensures that you will see a doc count for each domain in the list. However, if your query includes more than the single clause, you will see one clause and doc count for the domain list as a whole. Even a clause with zero for a Doc Count is listed in the table.
  • Unique — The number of documents in the results that were uniquely responsive to the specific clause.
  • Clause Ratio — The percentage of the total document count providing "hits" (based on meeting the search criteria for the given clause).
  • Duplicates — Per clause, the number of documents that represent duplicates based on family membership (MAG or DAG). A document is a duplicate of another document only if both documents have the same dupe_fingerprint and their parents have the same dupe_fingerprint and have different parents.
  • Family Expansions — Per clause, the number of documents that represent any additional family members (of a MAG or DAG) that were included in the results but did not match this clause. This field will report 0 for a Data Set, or NA for each clause if the Include Families option is not set for the Search.
  • Family Doc Count — Per clause, the number of families, where each family hit represents one of the following:
    • Each document that is not an email or from an email.
    • Each MAG, regardless of the number of email items in the MAG.

    Note: The dedupe counts and filesize are calculated and displayed according to the Project Deduplication setting (under Analytic Index Settings), either the default of Global or Custodial. This setting, which applies for Project Data and views of Project Data, determines the processing of email, reporting of dedupe counts and size, and how email is handled for an Export that includes duplicates. Keep in mind that reports will only be accurate if you keep the Families intact when running searches and saving documents to different views. This means that you must keep the Include Families checkbox enabled to ensure that Families remain intact for a Save operation (or Include Families for a search).

  • Total DeDuped Docs — Per clause, the number of documents that were responsive to the query, without including duplicate documents.
  • Total DeDuped File Size — Per clause, the file size (in GB) of the documents that were responsive to the query, without including duplicate documents.
  • Total DeDuped Docs w/Family — Per clause, the number of documents that were responsive to the query, including all of their family members, but not including duplicate documents.
  • Total DeDuped File Size w/Family — Per clause, the file size (in GB) of the documents that were responsive to the query, including all of their family members, but not including duplicate documents.
  • Unique DeDuped Docs — Per clause, the number of documents that were uniquely responsive to the specific clause, without including duplicate documents.
  • Unique DeDuped File Size — Per clause, the file size (in GB) of the documents that were uniquely responsive to the specific clause, without including duplicate documents.
  • Unique DeDuped Families (unique deduped documents with family) — Per clause, the number of documents that were uniquely responsive to the specific clause, including all of their family members, but not including duplicate documents.
  • Unique DeDuped Families File Size (file size of unique deduped documents with family) — Per clause, the file size (in GB) of the documents that were uniquely responsive to the specific clause, including all of their family members, but not including duplicate documents.

Your column selections also affect a downloaded search term report, which you download from the Search Summary on the Reports tab for a search result. This saves the per-Clause information to either an XLSX file, which features a multi-tab workbook of expanded information (the default for this chart) or a CSV file, which contains a single sheet with the Search Term Hit Count information only. When you select this option, you are prompted to name the XLSX (or CSV) file, and you can select a target directory for the file. Note that the XLSX by default includes per-Custodian and per-Batch sheets, but you can control whether or not these sheets are included using the Download Report Format Settings.

Search Settings: Save or Discard Changes

If you do not save your Search Setting changes before navigating away, you will be prompted to either save your changes and continue navigating away, discard your changes and continue navigating away, or cancel your changes and remain in the current location.

  • Save – Saves your changes to the Search Settings.
  • Discard Changes – Discards your changes to the Search Settings.

Search Settings: Save to and Load from Template Options

If you have the appropriate permissions, you can save your Search Settings to a template or load the settings from a template. To do this, click the ellipses to the right of Search Settings in the tree of eDiscovery Project Settings, as follows:

Note: Save to and Load from operations for this setting observe an "overwrite" behavior. For example, for a Load from operation, your current settings are replaced by the settings from the selected template/settings. Note that some settings, such as Patterns, Tags, Domain Lists, Alias Lists and Excluded Content observe an "append" behavior instead.

  • Save to Template - If you have Add/Edit permissions to Search Settings templates in the Organization, you can use the Save to Template option to save your current settings to a selected Organization template. You can either select an existing Organization template (including the Default Search Settings template), or you can select the top-level (New Template,) which launches the New Template dialog.
  • Load from Template - If you have Add/Edit permissions to Search Settings in the Project, you can use the Load from Template option to load settings from a selected template (from a list of available Organization templates). The loaded settings then appear and are saved automatically. Note that loading from a System template requires System-level View permission for a given Setting. (This means you must be a System User in a role with at least View permission to see a list of System templates for a particular type of template.)