Jump to the page a search match is on Pro

Full-text content search finds documents by what’s inside them. That’s useful, but on its own it leaves the reader with a 60-page policy document and the knowledge that the phrase is in there somewhere.

FileDeck Pro closes that last step. When a search matches inside a PDF, the result shows Found on page 7 underneath the title. Click it and the document opens at page 7.

FileDeck Pro — this is part of content search. It needs no setup beyond having content search enabled and your library indexed.

How to use it

Search your library as normal. Matches that were found inside a document’s text gain a small "Found on page N" control below the title; hovering it shows the surrounding sentence, so you can tell a passing mention from the section you actually want.

Clicking it opens the document at that page — in the preview lightbox if the document is previewable, otherwise in a new tab. Page jumping relies on the reader’s PDF viewer honouring a page anchor, which every current browser’s built-in viewer does.

When no page is shown

The control only appears when FileDeck can be certain which page a match is on. It is deliberately absent when it can’t:

• The match is in the document’s metadata, not the file. Searching for a word that only appears in the title, description or a category matches the document but has no page — there is nothing to jump to.
• The file isn’t a PDF. Word, Excel and PowerPoint files are fully searchable, but they have no fixed pagination to point at, so no page is offered.
• The PDF was scanned and read by OCR. OCR returns the document’s text as a single block without page structure, so scanned documents are searchable but not page-navigable.
• The PDF’s pages couldn’t be read individually. A small number of PDFs are built in a way the text extractor can’t split into pages. They stay fully searchable; they just don’t offer a page jump.

In every one of these cases the document still appears in the results exactly as before. The page jump is an addition, never a filter.

Which match does it point to?

The first one. If your term appears on pages 3, 9 and 40, the control points at page 3 and the hover snippet is the text around that first occurrence. When you search several words at once, FileDeck goes to the earliest occurrence of any of them.

Large libraries

Libraries big enough to switch to server-side paging get page jumps too — the page numbers are calculated for the rows on screen, so the feature doesn’t slow down as the library grows.

FAQ

Do I need to re-index for this to work?

Page positions are recorded when a document is indexed. Documents indexed before you updated will keep working for search but won’t offer a page jump until they are re-indexed. Run Documents → Settings → Search → Rebuild search index once to pick them all up, or simply re-save an individual document.

Does it highlight the search term in the document?

It opens the document at the right page. Highlighting inside the file is up to the reader’s PDF viewer, and browsers differ too much to promise it — so FileDeck promises the page, which is the part that reliably works.

Is the snippet visible to people who can’t open the document?

No. Snippets and page numbers are only ever calculated for documents the visitor is already allowed to view — the same access check that governs whether the document appears in results at all.