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Daniel1
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

Search function needs improvement!

I have roundabout 200 entries in 1Password. I searched for "example.com" and expected to get exactly two results. Instead I get 47 results. From those 47 results, only two are relevant.

When I searched for "example.com", I expect it to find only entries that either have "example.com" as part of their name, their email address or their web address, (or any other field). I have no idea why 1Password thinks that these other 45 results where relevant. But none of them had "example.com" in any of their fields. That makes the search function quite useless for me.

KeePass, which I used before, never made it that difficult to search and find stuff. That needs to be improved.

1Password Version: 8.6.1
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: Windows 11

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  • 1P_PeterG's avatar
    1P_PeterG
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    4 years ago

    @kraken:

    Quick search in the searchbar seems to ignore tags (and it has always ignored vault names)

    Thank you for this. I have submitted a preliminary request for Quick Access to be able to search by tags.

    ref: IDEA-I-878

    To make sure I understand the intent correctly, what would be your desired result when searching by a tag name or vault name? For example:
    * would you want to receive a selectable search result for that vault / tag?
    * or alternatively, for Quick Access to display a list of the items that are associated with the vault / tag, without displaying the vault/tag itself?

    I'm happy to forward the particulars to our development team. 👍

    The type in window functionality is something we're looking at as well. I don't have anything to share on that at the moment, but it hasn't dropped off our radar.

    Thanks, and I'll look forward to learning more about how I can help. 😃

  • 1P_PeterG's avatar
    1P_PeterG
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    4 years ago

    Hi Daniel1 and @kraken, thank you for the feedback here. The search feature is an ongoing area of work for us here, and we appreciate you letting us know where you think we could improve. We've discussed the reasons for the current search implementation further in the Desktop Betas forum, if you're interested to learn more about the details.

    Daniel1: I see that you're on Windows 11. Have you tried ctrl + alt + f? That may function more like you're expecting, and help with the specific use case you've described. We know we have more work to do in this area but I hope that this is helpful for your immediate to-do list.

  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member
    4 years ago

    I'm having similar issues with search. I use 1pass as part of an enterprise account and I've been having heaps of issues after updating to the latest update:

    • Quick search in the searchbar seems to ignore tags (and it has always ignored vault names, which would be more convenient to use tbh), making it useless for searching for client items (We set up a tag for each client so that search will actually allow us to find things).
    • "Type in window" functionality seems to have disappeared completely, which means I've had to resort to an AutoHotkey script for entering passwords into RDP sessions that don't want to play nice.

    Definitely disappointing that basic functionality you'd expect from a password manager has degraded after an "update".