List View - search all columns

[PMendesWebDev]

Issue description

When we perform a search in a node with list view, the 'Name' column is the only "target" of that search.

If we have a column with, i.e., an ID from an external source and we try to search it, it will never show as a result:

Can we have search working with all columns and not just the 'Name' column?

[jmf-umbraco]

Hi @PMendesWebDev,

Thank you for your valuable suggestion!

As you are almost certainly aware, Heartcore is built on top of Umbraco CMS. Since this suggestion would benefit the core CMS just as much as it would Heartcore, I am going to transfer your issue over to that repository. 🙂

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[andr317c]

Hey! Thanks for submitting this. This sounds a lot like a feature request, so I will go ahead and convert it into a discussion!

[PMendesWebDev]

While I understand this could be perceived as a feature request, it also seems "logical" that the search would target all filtered columns - it seems like a ux problem

[markadrake]

Please see Andy's recent comment here.

A potentially related PR for collection views is here.

While there is certainly progress, I don't think there is agreement on where this ends. I would like to see the collection view search execute in the same context as the global search in Umbraco, only filtered to the items currently displayed in the collection. Whether the field is on display or not, I think the search should use the Internal Index, should it not?

[kjac]

Hi all 👋

We're currently in process of reworking search for Umbraco. Some might already have seen the RFC which was accepted in March.

We plan on powering "everything search" by these new search abstractions - that is, both front-end and backoffice search. In other words, collection view search, global search and even search in document and media pickers will utilize indexed search in the future.

While there is no release date as of yet, I figure it's valuable input to this discussion 👍