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title: "Using Search"
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updated: 2026-07-29T22:13:26Z
published: 2026-07-29T22:13:26Z
canonical: "docs.cotality.com/using-search-1"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Using Search

### Using Search

        
            

Realist Search is a powerful, fully configurable tool that allows you to parse regional listings using an incredibly wide range of market criteria—including specific bedroom counts, spatial lot sizes, Owner names, and localized APN/Folio/Tax ID parameters unique to your regional market layout updates.

        

        

            

                
                    
                        

**Video Tutorial Overview**

                    
                    
                        

This video walkthrough outlines baseline navigation techniques and custom template setups to maximize your query speeds inside the master search terminal:

                        

- **County Selection Matrix:** Learn how to isolate specific regional municipal databases or target multiple counties simultaneously before running active searches.
- **Quick Search vs. My Search:** Review the procedural differences between executing immediate baseline queries and building advanced search frameworks.
- **Custom Search Templates:** Walk through creating net-new search workspaces or appending high-frequency field groupings into your existing templates.
- **Query Filters & Parameters:** Analyze the behavioral differences between global Admin Searches, flexible user Search Templates, and localized Templates pre-populated with criteria values.
- **Workspace Automation:** Discover how to save structural search presets and execute complex queries smoothly.
- **Real-Time Count Engine:** Monitor the active "Count on the Fly" system metric as it continuously recalculates total listing pools before you even display results.
- **Result Pagination Management:** Learn how to split massive record sets by viewing grouped output streams in 1-1,000, 1,001-2,000, and 2,001-3,000 block distributions.

                        
                            
                                
                                

Click [here](/docs/using-search-1#) to view the complete Using Search video tutorial in the media panel.

                            
                            [Detailed walkthrough demonstrating search template setups, custom filter rules, and dataset pagination controls.](https://www.youtube.com/embed/4qMKcefFOe0)