Add notes about using Painless with cross-project search #5608
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| - **User permissions:** {{cps-cap}} results are filtered by each user's role assignments across projects. Users with different roles will see different results from the same query. Refer to [Manage user access](/deploy-manage/cross-project-search-config/cps-config-access-and-scope.md#manage-user-access). | ||
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| - **{{product.painless}} scripting:** The [{{product.painless}} execute API](/explore-analyze/cross-project-search.md#cps-painless-execute) does not search across linked projects. It resolves index names against the origin project only. You can target a linked project by prefixing the index with the project alias (for example, `projectAlias:myindex`). |
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@marciw Out of curiousity, do happen to know where {{product.painless}} is defined? I know that it works, but I'm surprised not to see it in docs-content/docset.yml.
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Summary
see title. Based on a Slack thread and elastic/elasticsearch#138435
See also the corresponding ES reference doc update in elastic/elasticsearch#144895
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Details
current page: https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/cross-project-search#cps-supported-apis
addition:
current page: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5498/explore-analyze/cross-project-search/cross-project-search-manage-scope#cps-availability
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