Enhancement Request: Please fix SEARCH

J. Craig Williams

I really don't like the search feature implementation.

I get too many false positives and the wildcard usage is just plain annoying.

 

So, here's a few things that might make me less annoyed.

 

1. In the Type section, let me search Column names. 

We can already search Sheet and Sight names. I've written the code in Python, so know it is not very difficult to retrieve them.

 

2. If you insist on returning "Howitzer" whien I have requested "RowID", please provide an exact match check box. 

The  use of 'wildcards' doesn't match any logic or illogic I've ever been exposed to.

*RowID* returns "Brown".

Yeah, that helps. 

 

3. Provide a method to filter the resullts (not by type, by what is displayed)

My search for "*RowID*" has 4049 hits.

On the first page of my results, 17 appear to be correct.

17 out of 100. 

And "RowID" has the same number of total hits, so doubt there is a difference there.

 

Thanks.

 

Craig

 

 

Jeremy Myers

Yes, agree w Craig, please add my vote for these, plus:

 

Yellow highlight flag the matching values that appear in in the "Comments", just like the search feature in MS Word.  

JLC

+1!

J. Craig Williams

Sarcastic? ME? 

 

Craig

Tim Meeks

Craig,

 

I vote a +1 for your detailed analysis and another +1 for the saracasm!!

thanks for the laugh and taking the time that I can't seem to find!

 

Tim

Brad Jones

+1 for exact match checkbox, column search, and filter search results.