Another year has passed and I still do not like the search function.
There were no improvements either.
In my opinion it is unusable cause of following points:
It searches everywhere - usually I want to search the section I am in at the moment.
The search Window is to small - I barely see the results even on a big screen
It does not load all results - I always have to load more results this is very very uncomfortable
There is no way to sort anything like date, size, format
So unfortunatly if you want to search for something use Windows search or Outlook etc.
If anybody disagrees please tell me what mindset I missed.
I believe it prioritizes results from the current area you’re in (though I’m not certain this is consistently done). You can also limit the results to a particular section through the three dots menu or query modifiers like in: files. There’s always room for improvement though.
I haven’t noticed it being too small, but there are other factors that influence that like my own browser settings and maybe I don’t use it heavily enough.
Adjusting sorting does like it could be a nice addition. I’m not familiar with this area of code, but poking around just enough to potentially say something that is completely incorrect… It appears the search code already exists for handling ordering by date, size, etc. in the backend. That would be good news if someone find the desire to pick up the frontend pieces.
Depending on your needs, there is also the fulltextsearch app (and associated add-ons).
Actually you’re in luck: there is current work right now on this:
There are also some existing enhancement requests (some of which overlap either with the above or with each other), which you might want to put your vote in on by adding a to those important to you:
You can also limit the results to a particular section through the three dots
I can do that but it would still click another two times for getting the same first 4 results and then clicking load more load more etc. Better to use something else.
Depending on your needs, there is also the fulltextsearch app (and associated add-ons).
I tried that and I somehow do not now how to use it. I cannot see a difference here.
to those important to you: