# Search (Smart Search)

The plugin **Smart Search - Fileshelf** adds downloads to the site search (Smart Search). It finds title, description, file name – including its parts, so `price-list-2026.pdf` is found under “price” –, version and tags.

<figure id="bkmrk-the-search-finds-the"> ![The result of a search for price list with the matching download](https://docs.graup-it.de/uploads/images/gallery/2026-11/hZjdoku-18-website-suche.png) <figcaption>The search finds the download by title, file name or tag.</figcaption></figure>## Setting up

1. Check that the plugins **Smart Search - Fileshelf** and **Content - Smart Search** are enabled.
2. Open **Components → Smart Search** and click **Index** once, so that existing downloads are added.

From then on Fileshelf keeps the index up to date itself: when a download is saved, published, unpublished or deleted, and when the access level or status of a category changes.

## Who finds what

The search only shows a visitor downloads whose access level – and that of the main category – they have. Password-protected downloads are found; the file still comes only after the password.

Type, category (additional ones included), author, tag and language are available as search filters.

[Deutsche Fassung](https://docs.graup-it.de/link/405)