I have a saved search that displays what assemblies an items are members of. For example 123 is a member of assemblies ABC, DEF, and GHI. My return is pretty straight forward: Replace(ns_concat({memberof}), ',' , '<br>') Naturally, the end user wants the assembly's displayname rather than its name (SKU). Is there a way to grab that in an item search?

If the account has a manufacturing module, the native "Component where used" enquiry does this. It also lacks description, but does at least list parent assemblies as clickable links. I don't think there's a join available to achieve what you're trying to do in a search. You'd have to do it in a scripted search and lookup the required fields.

That's what I thought too. Ah well, glad to know that I haven't completely* lost my mind.