Search functionality in Squidex

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We are experiencing issues with the search functionality in Squidex. This is especially a major problem for the users of our cao CMS. When you type something into the standard search box (full text search) in Squidex, there is often no result. You cannot search on parts of words or, for example, on a number. At the moment you have to use filters for everything.

We have created and bookmarked a number of filters. But this is also not very user-friendly. For every search you have to select a filter, open that filter, then enter your search term in the filter pop-up and then click submit. (Every search action requires at least 4 clicks from the user).

In addition, you also cannot easily navigate through the different actions using your keyboard (to submit a search query you really have to click a button and you cannot use the Enter key).

The users of our cao CMS perform an enormous number of searches per day (more than an average editor of the core CMS), and having to click at least 4 times for every search and being able to navigate only with the mouse is practically unworkable.

Hi,

there are 3 problems:

  1. Accessability: Something easy that needs to be fixed, I agree with that.
  2. How the search works: Full text and so on. Difficult topic, we should talk about it in a call.
  3. The search dialog: There is a new version with an better search UI since a few months. You should update that.

Hi. I have pushed a new update with the search fields feature. It is a setting in the “More” tab of a schema, where you can define up to 3 fields that should be included to the full text search as a contains search.

Thanks Sebastian, Can you make it up to 4? Please let us know if you still need cao data dump from our side. The DB seems very big and it will be little tricky to provide you the same. If you really need then we can work and it to provide to you.

Sure, we can also make 4. But I have to limit it. You can try it yourself first and then see if it works and if you really need 4