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Former Member
3 years agoWhy is the top search result default instead of all results?
The way I search — like the vast majority of people in user testing I have done at my place of business — is to type a few things and hit return. Then you peruse a full list of filtered options. It i...
Mycenius
3 years agoSuper Contributor
From what I can recall, our current approach to search within the desktop app better aligned with user expectations in circumstances where they were trying to quickly find a singular item.
Thanks 1P_Travis for the explanation - FWIW I also find the whole addition of the cmd+option+f
(or ctl+alt+f
on Windows) thing counterintuitive and frankly just a little bizarre (at least for the primary search function). If you have a perfectly workable search function that is well displayed and integrated into the UI and obvious to every user regardless of platform why add a second obscure duplicate function (that requires multiple keyboard key use to activate & has no UI visual presence for non-advanced users) and its function is different to how the same command works in other apps?
The use of the cmd+option+f
(or ctl+alt+f
) for primary search in 1PW is inconsistent with how it's used by virtually every other app and system around (at least that I know of) - it's primarily for 'find' functionality within a single document, website page or other similar individual instance. In 1PW's case this would be within a single item's details (e.g. searching the text within a single Secure Note) - not doing a full search of the database - hence counterintuitive and not following consistent practice for this function (at least as I know it - happy to be corrected). Can you update the cmd+option+f
function so it can at least have the option to be used like in most other environments & apps to find text within any fields of the current item you have open (i.e. inside a single vault item - currently it can't and seems to only search item 'names' plus username fields in the entire vault from what I can tell - while the full search function searches URLs and other additional fields - that's just weird and messy - and it means cmd+option+f
isn't really usable as a surrogate search like it's been suggested in this thread).
Anyway just my 2¢ on the subject - not wanting to be negative or decry the work that you, the dev teams, everyone else has put into redesigning everything from the ground up and building v8 which I know is a huge undertaking - and if it helps make 1PW robust and secure and more adaptable long-term that is great. But sometimes what sounds like a good idea on paper doesn't turn out to be IRL, or what research suggests people/users/customers want isn't actually what they really want.