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This pull request reorganizes the "Get Started with Search" documentation section (DOCS-78):

  • Splits the 4 overlapping categories (Search Basics, How to Use the Search Page, Build Searches, Suggested Searches) into 5 clearer ones (Search Basics, Build Searches, Search Results, Manage Searches, Suggested Searches) using Docusaurus's location-independent doc IDs — no files moved, no URLs changed for the reorg itself
  • Orders items within each category using 90 days of GA4 traffic data, while keeping explicitly pedagogical anchors in place (e.g. Search Modes before Autocomplete, Best Practices last)
  • Runs a full title audit so every doc title stands alone out of context (titles surface in Algolia search)
  • Merges two short, closely-related docs into their parents (add-saved-search-to-favorites.mdsave-search.md; share-message-link.mdshare-link-to-search.md) with matching cid-redirects.json entries
  • Splits non-TOC content out of two category index pages into new about-search-page.md / about-build-search.md pages
  • Adds missing H2 structure to 9 previously flat docs, fixes a heading-hierarchy skip in 2 docs, trims duplicated content between set-time-range.md and time-range-expressions.md, and fixes several smaller content bugs found along the way (a copy-pasted description, duplicate bullets, an undocumented UI icon, awkward phrasing)

Verified against a clean yarn build (no broken links/anchors) throughout.

Not yet addressed from the ticket (flagging for a follow-up pass):

  • Aligning the new IA with the Training Team's learning-path slides and the product roadmap
  • The specific beginner-friendliness gap called out in the ticket (documenting ?<field_name> regex named-capture syntax, which is unrelated to ? as a wildcard)

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  • Update Content - Revisions, updating sections
  • Minor Changes - Typos, formatting, slight revisions
  • New Content - New features, sections, pages, tutorials
  • Site and Tools - .clabot, version updates, maintenance, dependencies, new packages for the site (Docusaurus, Gatsby, React, etc.)

Ticket (if applicable)

https://sumologic.atlassian.net/browse/DOCS-78

kimsauce and others added 4 commits August 26, 2026 00:34
Split the 4 overlapping categories (Search Basics, How to Use the
Search Page, Build Searches, Suggested Searches) into 5 clearer ones:
Search Basics, Build Searches, Search Results, Manage Searches, and
Suggested Searches. Docs are regrouped by category without moving any
files on disk, so no URLs change and no redirects are needed.

Also reorders items within each category to teach fundamentals before
edge cases (e.g. Search Modes and Search Autocomplete now lead Build
Searches; Comments in Search Queries moves to the end of Search
Basics since it depends on already knowing how to write a query).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sharpen titles so each doc makes sense out of context (e.g. as an
Algolia search result), fix sentence-case heading violations, and
update cross-references and index-page card text to match the new
titles. Also fixes a few awkward or inaccurate sentences flagged
during review (e.g. Search Modes' intro, which previously only
described Basic Mode).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… docs

Both were short, closely-related docs that made more sense as
sections of their parent pages:

- Add a Saved Search to Favorites -> merged into Save a Search as
  "Add a saved search to Favorites"
- Share a Link to a Specific Message -> merged into Share a Link to
  a Search as "Share a link to a specific message"

Updates cid-redirects.json (retargets 2 existing legacy redirects and
adds 2 new ones for the retired /docs URLs) and fixes the remaining
cross-reference in get-started/library.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…x content bugs

Sidebar and navigation:
- Reorder items within all 5 Get Started with Search categories using
  90-day GA4 pageview data, keeping explicitly-fixed pedagogical
  anchors in place (orientation pages first, Search Modes before
  Autocomplete before Dynamic Parsing, Best Practices last in Build
  Searches, Comments last in Search Basics)
- Sync all 5 index-page TOC card orders to match
- Split the non-TOC content out of search-page/index.md and
  build-search/index.md into new about-search-page.md and
  about-build-search.md pages, added to sidebars.ts and given proper
  titles/intros/cross-links (about-build-search.md also had its
  "Write efficient search queries" section cut since it fully
  duplicated best-practices-search.md; rescoped to its unique content)

Structure and content fixes:
- Add missing H2 sections to 9 docs that had none (quick-search-
  collectors-sources, search-autocomplete, view-traces-search-results,
  change-time-range-in-histogram, search-from-field-browser,
  show-hide-fields-in-field-browser, log-level, pin-a-search,
  search-highlighting); pin-a-search.md and search-from-field-browser.md
  also had their heading levels promoted to fix an H1-to-H4/H3 skip
- Add missing intro paragraph to set-messages-tab-preferences.md and
  de-duplicate its "Sort by" / "View n messages per page" bullets
- Fix log-level.md's frontmatter description, which was copy-pasted
  from an unrelated doc
- Trim duplicated content between set-time-range.md and
  time-range-expressions.md (DOCS-1830 scope), and cross-link both to
  the canonical time-reference.md doc for time zone details
- Rewrite pause-cancel-search.md's awkward intro and apply the
  "Log Search page" branding decision
- Change "Best approach" to "Recommended" in best-practices-search.md
- Add a missing meter-icon (Scan Estimates) row to about-search-page.md's
  UI reference table
- Retitle wildcards-in-full-text-searches.md and search-modes.md with
  clearer value props

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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