#Find processes with search and favourites
Each list in Chester has its own search field, and favourites keep the processes you work on one click away from your dashboard.
#Search a list
❌ There is no search across all of Chester. You search inside the list you are looking at, and each search field matches what that list shows:
| Where | Search field | What it matches |
|---|---|---|
| Projects | Search projects … | The project name |
| A project page | Search area, group or process … | Area, group and process names |
| Systems | Search systems … | The systems in the list |
| Agents | Search agents … | The agents in the list |
| Monitoring & logs | Search ID, initiator … and Search context … | A run's id or who started it, and the data a run carries |
| Users | Search users | The people in the list |
On a project page, a match on an area or a group keeps everything inside it visible, so you can type the name of an area to see just that part of the tree.
#Mark a process as a favourite
flowchart LR S["☆ on a process page<br/>(Designer)"] -- "Add to favourites" --> F["Favourites card<br/>on the Designer dashboard"] F -- "drag" --> O["Your own order"] F -- "Remove from favourites" --> X["Gone from the card"] E["☆ on a process in a catalog<br/>(Execution)"] --> T["Today<br/>(Execution)"]
Open a process in the Designer and click the star in its header — Add to favourites. Click it again to Remove from favourites.
Your favourites appear on the Designer dashboard, in the Favourites card:
- Click a favourite to open it.
- Drag a favourite up or down to put the card in your own order.
- Remove from favourites on a row takes it off the card.
Favourites are yours alone. Nobody else sees them, and they do not change the process.
#Favourites in the Execution app are separate
The Execution app keeps its own favourites. A process you star in a catalog there is listed on Today, and a catalog you star is listed in the sidebar under Process catalogs. Neither appears on the Designer dashboard, and a Designer favourite does not appear in the Execution app. See Running processes.