Searching capability in Docs is weak/poor
David Simmons
Are there any plans to improve search.
I've been trying to integrate ClickUp into our workflows. We've made a number of attempts with different teams.
But while authoring docs is OK, could be better as posted elsewhere.
Or real issue is that once we have rich multi page docs, books, the searching is practically useless.
At best you get a page reference. almost any other search tool will take you to the page and the parts of the page holding your search phrases and will support a rich FTS search model of phrases, or regex.
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Ash
I maintain project documents digitally that can develop into novels. Currently MS OneNote search outperforms as I can find the specific places in pages where a word/phrase is used. I'd love to see the Clickup search upgraded to match capability - for me, it would then truly be the one app to replace them all.
Jules Jäck
This is a massive block for our company as we just started combining all of our information into one big wiki that all our employees are supposed to use.
I was very happy when I found out that I could copy a block link to get better cross-referencing within the doc and the section I linked to was actually highlighted when I jumped there.
All the more confusing that the same can't be done for the search. We have tid bits of information that don't warrant a separate page or sub-page but without being able to jump to the right location it takes forever to find the info needed.
Searching tasks is sometimes buggy but the doc search is pretty much unusable for us. Would love to know if there are any plans to optimize this or if there are features I haven't considered for this issue.
Jenny Klosser
The lack of search in docs is a pretty massive limitation over our other option for project records (Google Docs ) . Please prioritise this!
Brent
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Hi all, we've updated the status of this request to better reflect its current stage.
We're still collecting feedback on this feature, so please be sure to share any additional thoughts or details on how this would benefit your workflow!
pixojoy
contextual search, please
Kristi Schild
Improved search for marked up comments in a PDF proof would make the comments feature useful in multi-page documents for proofing/edits. Click on comment and bounce to location within lengthy piece.... please.
Justin Hunter
Hey David Simmons! Thanks for the feedback! Yes, there are plans to improve this. We previously only allowed searching the titles of pages and subpages within a Doc which was a massive limitation. Recently, we rolled out an improvement that gives you full text search of all the page' content. However, you're right, it's still limiting in that you are not scrolled directly to the section that has the search term and the search term is not highlighted.
Regex is possible, but it's not specifically on the roadmap at the moment.
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Shawn Sidoruk
Justin Hunter: I hope the searching works more like a fully-fledged search rather than a limited one like a browser. A browser just shows you the number of matches and lets you skip to the next one. If you get 50 matches it is hardly useful and I would say would give little benefit over just using the search in a browser.
Alternatively a fully-fledged search would show me each of the matches in a side-modal, along with a snippet for each match (or at least line number), then it can really save time when navigating to a specific section where my word is located.