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The Exchange catalog of assets can display hundreds of assets that help developers discover assets to create projects quickly and drive adoption of best practices and reuse. You can find assets from Mulesoft’s ecosystem or your own organization. Based on your permission group, you can search multiple business groups, documentation, tags, custom attributes, and details from API specifications.

To help find assets, searches can be refined using search terms like a name of an API, by filters like organizations, categories, tags, and lifecycle states, or by ranking.

Anypoint Exchange search looks for terms in:

  • Each asset’s name

  • Description

  • Contact name and email

  • Tags

  • Categories

  • The content of the asset portal pages

  • Properties defined in RAML and OAS API specifications

Search by Keyword

You can use the Search assets box to find assets by keyword.

Search assets box

Keywords can be the following asset information:

  • Each asset’s name

  • Description

  • Contact name and email

  • Tags

  • Categories

  • The content of the asset portal pages

  • Properties defined in RAML and OAS API specifications

To find assets using keywords:

  1. From the Exchange landing page, enter a keyword in the Search assets field, for example Mulesoft and press enter or return depending on your keyboard.

    A list of assets display that contain the keyword.

  2. To clear the keyword from the Search assets field, click X.

The following image is an example search results using the search keyword Mulesoft. The search keyword is highlighted in the results.

Search results with the Mulesoft keyword highlighted

Filter Search Results

You can use the following filters to refine your search results.

The search refinement filters

  • Type

    Types can be AsyncAPIs, connectors, REST APIS, rulesets, and more. See Asset Types for more details. The list of asset types that display depends on which types are available in a business group.

  • Organization

    Business groups that you have permission to view those assets.

  • Category

    Categories are specific groupings of assets set by the administrator of a business group or an organization owner.

  • Tag

    Keyword or term that describes a specific search.

  • Lifecycle state

    Lifecycle state can be stable, deprecated, or development.

Filter options appear when they are available within an organization.

To filter search results:

  1. From the Exchange landing page, select a filter option.

  2. Click one or more options from the menu and click Apply.

  3. To clear a filter option, click Clear filter.

  4. To clear all filter options, click Clear all filters.

Sort Search Results

You can sort the ranking of search results. Assets can be sorted by the following options:

  • Relevance

    Sorts the matching results by where a match is found in the asset metadata, such as name, title, pages, and API specification metadata. API specification metadata includes endpoints and types. A search term must be entered to see the Relevance option in the Sort by list. When you search by a term, assets are sorted by Relevance by default.

  • Name

    Sorts by asset name in ascending alphabetical order.

  • Last modified

    Sorts the results by the most recently modified assets at the top, for example, the latest published assets or assets that have new versions recently added. This is the default for all business groups except assets that are provided by Mulesoft.

  • Rating

    Sorts by descending order by the review rating of an asset (stars on an asset card). The highest rated assets is at the top.

  • Featured

    Sorts by placing a featured selection of assets at the top of the results. This is the default order for the Provided by MuleSoft and Global Exchange. Other assets that are not featured assets are ordered by last modified. The sorting options appear when they are available within an organization.

To sort the ranking of search results, use the Sort by drop-down menu to select an option: Relevance, Name, Last modified, Rating, Relevance, or Featured.

The Sort by filter

Find assets quickly by saving frequently used search queries for yourself or for your business group. Saved searches display in the navigation pane.

Exchange lists search terms specific to your business group. The example displays saved searches:

Saved Search Groups

To save a search:

  1. From the Exchange landing page, enter a search term or select options from a filter, then click Save this Search.

  2. When prompted, give the search a name and select to save the search as personal search or an organization search.

    Administrators can save searches visible to anyone in their current business group. Personal searches are visible only to the person who creates them.

  3. Click Save search.

  4. Confirm that your search appears in the saved searches in the left navigation bar.

  5. To rename a saved search, click the three dots and select Rename.

  6. To delete a saved search, click the three dots and select Delete.