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title: Configuring search in Next Experience
description: Customize Next Experience search settings. Add searchable tables, modify the fields displayed for search results from a table, or add workspace applications to the search context menu.
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# Configuring search in Next Experience

Customize Next Experience search settings. Add searchable tables, modify the fields displayed for search results from a table, or add workspace applications to the search context menu.

Next Experience search is enabled by default in the Unified Navigation.

## Add a searchable table

A search source specifies a table to include in Next Experience search. The search results page displays matching records and their counts on a per-table basis. Users can select a table to filter their search results, displaying only matching records from the selected table.

\[Omitted image "pol-search-general-filter.png"\] Alt text: Table filter list from search results page.

To make a table searchable in Next Experience, add it as a new search source. See [Add a search source for Next Experience](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/platform-administration/search-settings-filter-group-table.md).

For the list of tables searchable by default in the base system, see [Default global search sources for Next Experience](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/platform-administration/search-settings-filter-group-table.md).

## Modify the fields displayed for each search result from a table

The text\_search list view for a searchable table determines which fields the system uses to populate the title, field list, and description for each result from that table.

\[Omitted image "pol-search-result-fields.png"\] Alt text: Sample search result listing in Next Experience UI showing result's title, field list, and description.

To learn how the system uses fields in the text\_search list view to populate search result entries, see [Text search views control format of global search results for tables](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/platform-administration/text-search-view-formats-results.md).

For the list of fields included in the base system's text\_search list views for the default searchable tables, see [Default display fields for global search tables](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/platform-administration/global-search-default-tables.md).

## Add a workspace application to the search context menu

The search context menu enables users to view and open search results in available workspace applications as well as in global search.

\[Omitted image "pol-search-context.png"\] Alt text: Search context menu displayed beneath Unified Navigation search field.

To add a workspace application to the search context menu, see [Add a workspace application to the Unified Navigation search context menu](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/platform-administration/add-app-search-context-polaris-ui.md).

For details on using the search context menu, see [View and open search results using workspace applications in Next Experience Unified Navigation](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/platform-administration/global-search-polaris-ui.md).

For more information on configuring search settings in Next Experience, see [Global search finds records from multiple tables](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/platform-administration/c_GlobalTextSearch.md).

**Parent Topic:**[Configuring the Next Experience UI](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/platform-user-interface/next-experience-ui-admin.md)