Ability to Search for Table Names | Voters

Ability to Search for Table Names

George Elio

When performing a search I may have a table burried in one of my many solutions, as such when performing a search the search algo should should search everthing including table names. If you would like an example you can review Asana global search functionality.

January 5, 2024

Nate Montgomery @ SmartSuite

Merged in a post:

CMD + K to let us search table names in our workspace and jump to that table.

Rosson Long

CMD + K to open a "table search" that searches all of the tables in your workspace. Quickly jump between tables (even in other solutions) by searching the name of the table and then hitting enter or down arrow enter to instantly jump to the table you want to be working on.

Bonus: Include items in your favorites as options in the search in addition to the tables in your solutions.

July 5, 2024

Jon Darbyshire

Thank you for posting, Rosson Long! I have a few more questions for you:

Can you provide more details on how you envision the 'table search' feature to work in terms of user interaction?
Are there any specific criteria you would like to use to filter or sort the tables in the search results?
Would you find it useful if the search also included the contents of the tables, or should it strictly be limited to table names?

Rosson Long

Jon Darbyshire

For users and developers alike I think having a straightforward way to navigate in the software to quickly get to your favorites without leaving home row would be amazing. Especially if the table we want to go to is in another solution.

I imagine it would show up like a modal in the center of the page when you hit CMD + K/J.

I would just try to show anything that is in your favorites bar and any table in the solution that has the list of characters in it that the user is typing. Show the matches with favorites at the top and the matches with tables in the different solutions down below.
I don't think it's necessary to include the contents within a table and would be a very expensive query to be so fast. If you wanted to search an entire solution or set of solutions I think this could be a separate feature and potentially goes beyond the scope of navigation.