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title: "Finding Your Way Around Realist"
slug: "finding-your-way-around-realist"
updated: 2026-07-29T20:59:24Z
published: 2026-07-29T20:59:24Z
canonical: "docs.cotality.com/finding-your-way-around-realist"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.cotality.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Finding Your Way Around Realist

### Finding Your Way Around Realist

        
        
            

On Realist’s main page you’ll find a full set of searching and mapping tools, all contained within one, easy-to-use interface where you’ll perform searches and view and manage your results. Searching and mapping work together seamlessly, allowing you to drill down visually on the Map with roadmap, satellite, hybrid, and terrain views, or view parcel information in the more traditional search results grid containing customizable columns of data.

        

        
        

            
            

                
                
                    
                        
                        

**Interface Navigation & Workspace Layout**

                    
                    
                        

The main interface brings your physical property geography and mathematical search fields together into a single terminal window:

                        

- **Integrated Mapping Core:** Toggle fluidly between roadmap, satellite, hybrid, and terrain views to study physical parcel layouts.
- **Traditional Data Grid:** Manage your generated data rows within a traditional results grid outfitted with customizable column arrangements.

                        
                            
                                
                                

Click [here](/docs/finding-your-way-around-realist#) to view the main page layout map diagram.

                            
                            ![Realist main workspace diagram highlighting search attribute configuration side panels, map canvas layout options, and the search results grid matrix.](https://cdn.document360.io/d7730790-9b0e-4a1e-800e-a32628b13559/Images/Documentation/Finding_Your_Way_Around_Realist_1.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-06T00%3A19%3A09Z&se=2026-11-06T01%3A19%3A09Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=hPc2JgrdKkpVEe%2B7d33JyoJinVrejN9tMN78mcq8kag%3D)
                        

                        
                        
                            
                            

**TIP:** In Realist, fields that you see in the My Search pane are called search attributes and can be edited by clicking on “Customize Search.” Search attributes can also include the areas of a Map that you search within. Since you can edit and save the attributes contained on your Searches and Forms, you can completely customize My Search for your personal use.