Evidence Search Assistant
Search Assistant — Search History
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Navigation: Explore → Search Assistant → Search History
Primary audience: the signed-in user; administrators see only governance metadata under separate permission
Purpose
Search History lets users revisit investigations, understand their earlier scope, see how permissions or evidence changed, and manage retained private search activity.
Scope controls and indicators
Period limits search date. Search Type filters search or answered question. Source Scope limits the evidence types used. Exported filters sessions whose results were exported.
Searches This Month, Answers Opened, Exports, and Permission Changes summarize personal activity. They support continuity and transparency, not productivity measurement.
Recent investigations
Each item shows query, date, search type, result count at that time, object scope, and whether it was saved or exported. Run again applies the current permission and source state; it may produce a different result.
Selected search scope
The detail panel shows query, note, project or other object, period, source types, result locations, previous answer state, and any access change. Removed results are reported without exposing restricted content.
Supporting analysis
Search purpose groups personal activity by project, commercial, relationship, administration, or other declared use. Reusable investigations suggests saving recurring searches. History actions provides rerun, save, and deletion controls.
Actions
- Run an investigation again.
- Open a prior answer or permitted result set.
- Save a recurring query.
- Add or edit a private note.
- Delete eligible private history items.
- Review an export or permission change.
Recommended procedure
Rerun important investigations before relying on an old result. Review scope and permission changes. Save only recurring business questions and remove disposable searches according to personal and organizational retention rules.
Limitations
History records what the user searched, not the literal content of later-restricted sources. Legal hold or security policy can prevent deletion. Rerunning uses current evidence and can change counts and answers.
Related screens
Ask, Search Results, and Saved Questions.
