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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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.