1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processing system, cause the processing system to perform operations within a graphical user interface (GUI) for generating search queries for a search through content and metadata of files, the operations comprising: displaying a text input field within the GUI; receiving text input from the text input field and generating search suggestions from the text input by searching through the content and metadata of files, the search suggestions associated with the text input; displaying a field within the GUI containing a set of selectable search suggestions generated from the text input, the selectable search suggestions including a scope and an entity; receiving an input to select one of the selectable search suggestions; generating a first tokenized search suggestion for the search suggestion selected by the input, the first tokenized search suggestion including the scope and the entity of the search suggestion selected by the input; and displaying a graphical representation of the first tokenized search suggestion to replace the text input in the text input field, the graphical representation of the first tokenized search suggestion including a selectable scope field having a drop-down menu, wherein the graphical representation additionally includes an input displayed adjacent to the selectable scope field, the input to search in the scope of the search suggestion selected by the input.