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Ivan Kanevski
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Hi everyone,
The latest and greatest search (Search V3) has been rolled out to everyone. This is a brand new technological platform and it's designed to only get better (faster, smarter & more powerful) over time.
Here are some highlights from the latest release:
- Comment Search is back. Just look for the "Comments" tab.
- Indexing should now be almost instant. For example, tasks will appear much faster in search after they are created.
- There is now a "Current Location" filter. You can use it to only show the results for the location you are currently viewing.
- New "Assigned to..." filter
- New "Created by..." filter
- New sort option "Last Created", which will show things that were most recently created
- Back and forward history controls. Helpful to go back to your previous search after Command Center closes.
- More keyboard friendly. You can now do a lot more without touching the mouse.
- It is faster, and will continue to get faster
With the new platform online, it means we can actually make improvements week-over-week.
A lot of the feature requests in this thread are now possible, so I’ll be going through this thread and picking off the things people have been asking for.
In the meantime, I'm going to close this thread for the purpose of focusing our discussion. If you have a feature request, feel free to kick off a new Canny thread (that way it'll get attention it deserves).
The best parts are yet to come, but you can hear more about that at the LevelUp conference this coming Tuesday.
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Ralph Stokes
Is there a way to make the task filters - active, closed, archived - persistent? I.e. when search is opened and closed the last used filter remains in place. Otherwise you basically have to click active every time you open a search!
Guy Mannerings
Hey Ivan Kanevski,
The speed of indexing has dropped back to where it was before the v3 rollout a couple of weeks ago - it's now back to around 20s-30s.
Just thought I would let you know!
Ivan Kanevski
Guy Mannerings: Tested this and it shouldn't be the case. Feel free to shoot me an email ikanevski@ if you have a demo. Not all systems are powered by Search V3, but the main Command Center should have a recently created task almost immediately.
Guy Mannerings
Ivan Kanevski: Hey Ivan. All good now. Think it was just a few days.
Michael
The new search function is really good! Would it be possible to extend it to attachments (OCR for pdfs, images, MS-Office files) and pdf comments?
Ivan Kanevski
Michael: yes, that's on the docket.
Luke Flegg
Hello! LOVE the new Search but I wish I could 'Pin' a search filter so it remebers to stay applied every time I do a search.
Current use case: 99% of the time, I'm searching just this one space "CCA" so I don't want all my spaces searched which brings up loads of irrelevant results.
It's silly to have to keep applying this filter every single time I do a search!
Thanks
Ivan Kanevski
Luke Flegg: Makes sense. I think we need something like "Saved Search" feature (which we actually already have APIs to support). Then need to figure it out how to compose and save the searches, and then make it quickly accessible in the Command Center.
Ivan Kanevski
Luke Flegg: Also, if you are already in the space, you can open the Command Center and type "Ctrl Shift L" to input the current location.
If you searched for it recently you can "go back" (Command + [) to go to previous search which should fill in the filter.
Not perfect, but might be helpful in the meantime.
S
Stephanie Henry
Ivan Kanevski: is it this one you are speaking of? If so it's ctrl+shift+L... and thanks, I didn't notice this before.
Ivan Kanevski
Stephanie Henry: Thanks, fixed my comment.
Guy Mannerings
Ivan Kanevski: Hey Ivan. This previous search shortcut sounds useful, but for those of us who use a mouse more than keyboard commands, and for people who can't remember keyboard shortcuts, can we get a button?
Ivan Kanevski
Guy Mannerings: There are back and forward buttons at the bottom left of the Command Center.
Guy Mannerings
Ivan Kanevski: Well now I feel like an idiot. :-D
For some reason, I thought they did something else...!
Thanks Ivan!
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Ralph Stokes
Luke Flegg: +1 on this, it's exactly what I was going to say. In my case I don't want to keep clicking "Active" or having to press / + enter every time I search because 90% of the time I don't want to see closed tasks. Being able to define a default set of filters would be great, or even if it applied the last used settings rather than starting from the beginning every time you open it.
Ivan Kanevski
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Hi everyone,
The latest and greatest search (Search V3) has been rolled out to everyone. This is a brand new technological platform and it's designed to only get better (faster, smarter & more powerful) over time.
Here are some highlights from the latest release:
- Comment Search is back. Just look for the "Comments" tab.
- Indexing should now be almost instant. For example, tasks will appear much faster in search after they are created.
- There is now a "Current Location" filter. You can use it to only show the results for the location you are currently viewing.
- New "Assigned to..." filter
- New "Created by..." filter
- New sort option "Last Created", which will show things that were most recently created
- Back and forward history controls. Helpful to go back to your previous search after Command Center closes.
- More keyboard friendly. You can now do a lot more without touching the mouse.
- It is faster, and will continue to get faster
With the new platform online, it means we can actually make improvements week-over-week.
A lot of the feature requests in this thread are now possible, so I’ll be going through this thread and picking off the things people have been asking for.
In the meantime, I'm going to close this thread for the purpose of focusing our discussion. If you have a feature request, feel free to kick off a new Canny thread (that way it'll get attention it deserves).
The best parts are yet to come, but you can hear more about that at the LevelUp conference this coming Tuesday.
Andreas Pütz
Ivan Kanevski: Thanks for this update. Really cool to see the big improvement and getting things faster.
Santiago Fontana
Ivan Kanevski: Thank you!!
Nussi Einhorn
Ivan Kanevski: Wow! It's super great!
Best search in the world
Guy Mannerings
Is there any way we could get search integrated in to Task View, to just search that one task, as well as its subtasks and nested subtasks?
So there would be a search button at the top of Task View, and it would only search within that Task's (and subtasks') descriptions, custom fields, attachments, comments, checklist items, etc.
This would be really useful for when you know there is a piece of information within that task/subtasks, but it is buried somewhere and you can't remember exactly where.
Maybe something for Task View 3.0, Ivan Villa?
Ivan Kanevski
Guy Mannerings: The APIs for this already exist in Search V3, so likely something that can be wired up at some point once Task View 3.0 is out.
Lukas Moser
please make the search result window/list bigger
Ivan Kanevski
Lukas Moser: We need a full-screen search experience for sure.
Guy Mannerings
Ivan Kanevski: Could this be an option, akin to the new Task View (which has sidebar, small, and full screen)?
So small version as it currently is, medium with more task info, and full screen with loads of task info?
Guy Mannerings
Not sure of the value of the new "tab" to move a task to the current location button, and think it could be something more useful.
I could be wrong, but I don't see how often people will be searching tasks and wanting to move them to the current view to warrant having such a prominent button in a prime space that could be used for something more useful.
For example, you could have a "preview" button, which allows you to preview the task you are thinking of opening/copying the link for, etc, as sometimes tasks are not clear exactly what they are just from the name.
Or maybe it could be a "custom fields" button, where you can view/change the custom fields attached to that task. This feels like something much more useful and potentially used more often than moving the task to the current view.
Also, the button is dangerous. - It's easy to press it or press "tab" by accident and move the task without realising.
Nick Kadutskyi
Guy Mannerings: Even though it says "Move Here" when hovering over that Tab button it doesn't work like that for me.
In my case it just puts the task in the top of my search window and, instead of showing search results, it shows me all the actions available for the task.
Does it "Move Here" in your case?
Guy Mannerings
Nick Kadutskyi: Ah right. That wasn't working for me before - it was dumping out of the search screen and back to the List view I was on. So that, coupled with the "Move Here" wording, I thought it was trying to move tasks.
Thanks for the clarification!
Still, though, this seems like a pointless feature.
We already have the ability to open a task, open it in a new tab, and copy the link to it directly from the search results. So pinning it to the top to get 2 extra options of copying the task ID or sending it to the tray seems like a huge waste of what could be a really useful button.
Like if it pinned the task to the top and showed all its custom fields underneath instead of what it shows right now, that would save so much time and be so useful, in my opinion.
Ivan Kanevski
The "Move Here" tool tip is not helpful. Maybe something more understandable would be "Show in Command Center". We'll change this.
The "Tab" interaction is kind of a "right-click" designed for people that type.
So, the idea is that is you type your keyword, find your result, and without moving your hands to the mouse you type "Tab", then keep typing the next action, like "co" to "Copy the URL".
Guy Mannerings
Ivan Kanevski: I see. That makes sense.
If you do your bigger screen/full screen version of search as you mentioned above, it would be great to be able to get more info/interaction areas, like changing of custom fields on the fly as you search, if it's workable.
Thanks for clarifying!
Guy Mannerings
Ivan Kanevski I don't know what you did between yesterday and today, but search just got FAST. Like, instant.
Also, it now indexes new tasks instantly and they turn up at the top of an empty search straight away,
Whatever you did, well done! It's really a huge change! Amazing!
Lukas Moser
Guy Mannerings: wow. same here. very nice improvement
Guy Mannerings
Lukas Moser: Yep, big time. Really hope it stays this way!
Ivan Kanevski
Guy Mannerings: Thanks - the team will appreciate seeing this. We are slowly rolling out the new search (Search V3). Still working through some details to make it really shine. Stay tuned, it should only get better.
Guy Mannerings
Ivan Kanevski: Great stuff! Also really liking the quick button to search within the current location. Very helpful.
Walker Chan
It can be very frustrating when searching to add a dependency: I can see the task I want to add but for some reason search won't find it
Ivan Kanevski
Walker Chan: Would be helpful to get more details here. We have lots of search-like interfaces, so hard to conceptualize which part isn't working as expected. If you open search, you can run the "Report Bug" command to shoot more details our way.
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