At the moment it’s not easy to quickly search table view. If I use “Ctrl+F” it only search in the visible scope. In theory you could use filter to narrow down results - but that’s too complicated to be used on a daily basis. This is a bit painful limitation when moving from Google Sheets. You can s…

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I feel this pain too and hope a type of contextual search is provided on the views soon. As you said filtering is not a suitable alternative as it is too permanent. The other main issue as you said is that search currently only works on the name and rich text fields. My entity names are getting lon…

I agree, this would be nice to have. I think there might be an assumption to just use the global search no matter where you are. But in the case of any View which shows multiple Entities, I believe there is value in being able to search within the context of that view (which I think is also what you…

Wow, your mockup is exactly what I’d be after. Let me just add that for our non-technical users this is a massively needed and especially valuable feature. They’re more likely to see content as free-text documents and expect to explore them this way.

Related: Filter for Views in Global Search Add Favourite Views section to Quick Search - #2 by Oshyan More flexibility to determine what gets indexed: Text and Select fields - #2 by Oshyan Search Scoping - "Search within Collection"

FYI I work around this at the moment by creating a List View which luckily isn’t paginated (it can be a bit slow to load, approx. 5 seconds for 500 entries). This List View includes relevant fields and is in fact a manual search index. I can then search the fully loaded page using “old style” Ctrl+F…

Yep this is very much needed. Right now I have to create ad hoc filters, which require many clicks/steps. Also, some kind o interactive filters would be nice, like notion recently added and Coda has for some time. Creating filters/different views every time one has to search a specific record is v…

This topic just got a vote from me :+1: It is apparent that Search could be split into two discrete functions: Global Search - the current implementation of search in Fibery, to search across all DBs, Views, Entities, etc. Search Entities in a View - this piece is missing. Provide users with the …

I know it’s not the true solution that is needed, but you can use your browser’s ‘Find in page’ function as a workaround until the real fix is implemented.

Yes, except where content is loaded dynamically and is not all loaded yet…

Yep, there’s that :slightly_frowning_face:

[DONE] Table view - quick search

Ideas & Features

Matt_Blais June 15, 2022, 3:44pm 5

Filter for Views in Global Search
Add Favourite Views section to Quick Search - #2 by Oshyan
More flexibility to determine what gets indexed: Text and Select fields - #2 by Oshyan
Search Scoping - "Search within Collection"

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[DONE] Table view - quick search

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