# About the Search Settings Page

The **Search Settings** page (**Admin  > Settings  > Search Settings**) allows you to view and manage settings that determine how Vault executes object and document searches. From this page, you can configure:

  * **Search Thesaurus**: Allows you to <a href="/en/gr/48194/">manage _thesauruses_ for your Vault</a>.
  * **Advanced Search Document Filters**: Allows you to <a href="/en/gr/59921/">define the object reference fields to include as filters</a>.
  * **Match Settings**: Allows you to enable certain settings for search term matching. See details about [Match Settings][0] below.
  * **Exporting Results**: Allows you to enable certain settings for how Vault [exports search results][2].
  * **Default Search Tab**: Allows you to select the tab that Vault searches by default when a user searches from any tab other than a custom document or object tab. See details about setting the [Default Search Tab][1] below.
  * **Search Collections**: Allows you to create and edit <a href="/en/gr/68708/">groups of objects that users can search</a> at the same time as expanded searches.

## Match Settings {#match-settings}

### Strict Matching {#about-strict-matching}

Strict matching is enabled by default. When searching with more than one search term, Vault only returns results that match 70% of the search terms, rounded down. The following table shows how many matching terms are required in searches with one to ten search terms.

| Number of Search Terms | Search Terms Required to Match\*|
| ---------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| 1 to 2 search terms    | 1 required                             |
| 3 to 4 search terms    | 2 required                             |
| 5 to 6 search terms    | All but 2 required                     |
| 7 to 10 search terms   | All but 3 required                     |

\* Search terms must match within the same field.

When you disable the **Enable Strict Matching** setting, Vault produces less precise search results by requiring only one search term to match.

### Auto-Filtering

When you enable the **Enable Auto-Filters** checkbox, Vault uses <a href="/en/gr/442/#smart-filter">auto-filtering</a>, which converts your search terms into filters when they match certain values on a document, such as _Document Type_ or lifecycle state. If you clear this checkbox, Vault always runs your search terms as a standard text search.

### Multilingual Object Search

When you select **Enable Multilingual Object Search**, Vault searches for object records using a dictionary to separate words rather than using whitespace. This improves matching for languages that do not typically use whitespace to separate words, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Thai. This setting also normalizes characters with diacritics for flexible matching when searching words with accents, umlauts, or tildes which are commonly used internationally. If you enable this option, Vault must reindex all of your objects which may take several hours. While the reindexing is in progress, Vault displays `(pending)` next to the _Enable Multilingual Object Search_ option and you cannot select or clear it.

## Exporting Results {#exporting-results}

### Include Search Criteria When Exporting Results to Excel

When you select **Include search criteria when exporting results to Excel**, Vault adds a new sheet entitled _Search Criteria_ to the exported Excel document for search results on any object or document tab. The search criteria appear in the sheet in the same order as in the UI with each applied filter displayed on a separate line. Tab filters are not included.

The Search Criteria sheet is not added to an exported Excel document if no search criteria are applied.


## Configuring the Default Search Tab {#default-search-tab}

By default, Vault searches all documents in the Library when a user searches from any tab other than a custom document or object tab. To change the default search tab, click **Edit** in the _Default Search Tabs_ panel. You can select any document or object tab from the drop-down.

## Archiving

You can **Enable Document Archiving** to allow users to archive documents when they are no longer in use. Any users with permission to view archived documents can do so via advanced search or in the _Archive_ tab. Once you enable archiving, you cannot disable it.

 [0]: #match-settings
 [1]: #default-search-tab
 [2]: #exporting-results