Edgewall Software

Version 5 (modified by Ryan J Ollos, 8 years ago) ( diff )

Capture idea from #4309, since that ticket will likely be closed soon with the alternate solution of adding a notice.

Ideas and suggestions for Trac's Search

This page collects ideas and suggestions for enhancing the search capabilities and user interface.

If you have a small nice idea but don't feel like starting a discussion on the MailingList or creating a new ticket, this is the place!

Ideas from tickets

  • Tickets for the search system:
    #1268
    Search for a revision/ticket/report number should find that changeset/ticket/report
    #1502
    Ticket searches don't interpret [[BR]]
    #1505
    Search all projects at once
    #2390
    search isn't case and accent insensitive
    #2644
    Link to ticket query page from search page
    #4398
    Inconsistent search for single-digit tickets
    #5589
    Full text search in attachments
    #5850
    Search Results Per Page Variable
    #5933
    Add search options for "match case" and "match whole word"
    #6302
    Retrieve search results in RSS format
    #7069
    'SearchResults doesn't indicate closed by etc..
    #7313
    Search help output provided by macros
    #7454
    Query timeouts with PG result in traceback
    #8380
    Search In Report / Search In Query functionality
    #8436
    search results won't show matches from ticket comments
    #9039
    Search within changeset contents(diffs)
    #9643
    [Patch] Ticket search by query with auto completion
    #9707
    search ticket does not work when query for both subject keyword and comment keyword
    #10268
    Search needs option for required words, logical operations, ignore words, etc
    #10303
    Faceted browsing in Search
    #10372
    Search in wiki should prioritize title matches and whole word matches above partial word matches
    #10665
    Search through all text fields
    #11268
    Obfuscation of email address is not performed on search results
    #11428
    Limit search realm when using quick search bar
    #11627
    Backport Bloodhound search API
    #11730
    Don't quickjump if multiple words in search phrase
    #13346
    Styling issue on search.css
    #13349
    Changesets are shown without repository name in search view
    #13350
    Search word not highlighting when word's length < 3
  • Search keyword on tickets for other components than the search system:
    #1329
    Ticket Search should (optionally) search only non-closed tickets
    #10763
    fix changeset search results
    #10764
    refactor changeset search
    #11977
    Attachment title in search results does not render closed ticket with strikethrough

CSS

Layout

User interface guidelines

Other ideas

  • search the change comments in Wiki history, and link to that specific version
  • User preference to enable/disable the quick-jump feature (discussed in #4309).

Other glitches


See also:

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