How do I access, use and alter searches in my search history?
Last updated on September 02, 2025
Embase saves a history of your searches until you close your browser (i.e. end your session) or until you have been inactive for more than four hours.
You can find your search history for each session at the top of your search results in the Search Results screen. The searches are numbers and displayed in order of occurrence. The newest searches will be at the top, and older searches at the bottom of the list. To see the results of a specific search, click on the search listing and the results will appear below the ‘Results’ heading.
Here are some useful ways of using and altering your search history:
Follow these steps to alter or refine searches from your history:
- Hover over the search listing until the blue highlight appears.
- Click ‘Edit’ from the options appearing on the right side of the search listing.
- Edit your search by adding terms and changing the command-line search syntax, for example with search operators or by adding field codes.
- Once you are satisfied with your search click ‘Test’ to see what the new syntax will look like.
- Click ‘Accept and update’ to run your edited search.
Each time you close your browser, log out or stop working in Embase for four hours, your session history will refresh and you won’t see the previous searches anymore. Embase allows a variety of ways of recording your searches.
Follow these steps to record your searches:
- On the Results Page, select your search under ‘History’ by ticking the box to the left-hand side of the search terms.
- Next to the ‘History’ heading, you will see the following options to record your search or to change you list with searches in your session history:
- Save: Saves your search on the Saved Searches page. Learn more
- Delete: Deletes the search from your session history. If you have already saved the search on your Saved Searches page, it will not be deleted from there.
- Print View: Prepares a print view of your search syntax line and the number of results
- Export: Exports the search as an HTML file, text file, or .csv file
- Email: Sends your search session history in the form of an email
Please note:
- The above options will only print, export or email your session’s searches and not the results of those searches.
- You can also apply all of the actions above to multiple searches or you whole session history.
Follow these steps to set email alerts or RSS feeds for a search in your session history:
- Hover over the search listing until the blue highlight appears.
- Click ‘Email Alert’ or ‘RSS feed’ from the options appearing on the right side of the search listing.
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