https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Basic-Search-giving-the-quot-Invalid-Expression-quot-error/m-p/412040#M253212 <P>Hello <a href="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/100093">@pandeyroshan</a>&nbsp;<BR /><BR /></P><P>You haven't imported any metadata yet — so Atlas has no entity types or instances to search. The Basic Search UI tries to run a default query with an empty or invalid typeName, which leads to the “Invalid expression” popup.</P> Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:44:39 GMT vats 2025-08-05T20:44:39Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Basic-Search-giving-the-quot-Invalid-Expression-quot-error/m-p/351002#M236116 <P>I configured the Atlas version 2.2.0 on AWS EMR, and did a basic search without prior importing the data in atlas, but it gives me the invalid expression error (in popup). What could be the possible reasons for that?</P> Mon, 29 Aug 2022 06:27:34 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Basic-Search-giving-the-quot-Invalid-Expression-quot-error/m-p/351002#M236116 pandeyroshan 2022-08-29T06:27:34Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Basic-Search-giving-the-quot-Invalid-Expression-quot-error/m-p/412040#M253212 <P>Hello <a href="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/100093">@pandeyroshan</a>&nbsp;<BR /><BR /></P><P>You haven't imported any metadata yet — so Atlas has no entity types or instances to search. The Basic Search UI tries to run a default query with an empty or invalid typeName, which leads to the “Invalid expression” popup.</P> Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:44:39 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Basic-Search-giving-the-quot-Invalid-Expression-quot-error/m-p/412040#M253212 vats 2025-08-05T20:44:39Z