Why are useful features dropped in v8? Is going back to 7 possible?

"Maybe they should stop looking and start to reimplementing the search UI of the previous versions."

Exactly. Your users are telling you search worked before, and it does not now. What else do you need to know? I understand you cannot reuse the code because you chose to rewrite the app in a different language. Are you telling us it's not possible to implement the same functionality using this new language?

Bring back the Mini UI Please!!!!

@hoeni I‘ve asked several times why search was changed to this uncommon UI/UX pattern… still waiting for an answer🤔

I‘m using 1PW since version 1 and participating in this forum for many years. In all those years I‘ve never seen complaints about search …until 1PW 8 was released😳 The ‚team‘ is looking into all those problems for months. Maybe they should stop looking and start to reimplementing the search UI of the previous versions.

viswiz Ah, this way it shows up... But this still misses the ability to sort.

So we have 3 different ways to search now, but none of these has the possibilities of the previous one? 🤪

I never understood the point of the search dropdown, anyway: There is one place where items are listed and another place above where you can type letters to limit them. That's a well known UX pattern, which even my 75 old mother recognizes in any unknown app. I can't see the benefit of an additional dropdown...

@hoeni oh, sorry, it's CMD + OPT + F and should look like this:

viswiz Wow, thank you, I have my ALT-hovering again 🎉

However, pressing CMD-F (or ⌘F) just focuses the regular search input here...

@hoeni this feature was initially not reimplemented. After many complaints it was reimplemented but disabled by default. You can enable it in Preferences - Security - Hold Option to toggle...

Oh, just found another thing I'm really missing: Once you could just press the Alt-Key while hovering a password field to see it's content while ALT was pressed. Still miss this a lot. Or is there a different Key for that now?

@hoeni all the usability problems you've found were reported about a year ago during early access but (almost) nothing was changed. Instead 1PW8 got some kind of hidden search feature activated by CMD + F. This opens another search box just above the list of elements and next to the sort button. This search works almost like the far superior search of 1PW7, i. e. show results inline without an additional shortcut.

GreyM1P

If you press ⌘↩ (Command–Enter) after your search, you'll see a list of results
Thank you so much, this is exactly what I was missing. :-). I completely overlooked that option.

There is still a little feature missing compared to v7 with Search & ⌘↩:
When activated, the Box XXXX Results for "<Search Term>", overlays the sorting pane for the entries, so there is still no way to see all matching results in a specific order (e.g. the oldest matching first or the like). Or did I miss it?

Tobi