More prominent search field
I would absolutely love it if there was an option to make search in the forum a more prominent feature.
See our Help Center here for an example:
https://help.soundflow.org/
Essentially, I'd love it if there was a search bar in the top of the category list and of topic lists that didn't require a click to reveal a popup, but rather was always visible.
Our forum now has 5,000 pages so it would make sense to make it easier for users to find existing content. I believe a prominent search feature would be key to fix that.
Ideally, it should be a fairly trivial fix - potentially it can be a flag in the UI settings so others can keep the feature as it is today.
- KajMagnus @KajMagnus2021-10-19 11:33:00.229Z
Maybe this can indeed be a quick fix (or somewhat quick). I can have a look
I think it's a good thing to have and could be nice to enable here at Ty .io too I suspect.
Nice looking example, thanks for the link.
- In reply tochrscheuer⬆:KajMagnus @KajMagnus2021-10-28 07:03:12.171Z
(Sorry for the delay. I've been improving session management in Talkyard. Now that's mostly done, still need to code review (not yet deployed), and some other things)
- In reply tochrscheuer⬆:KajMagnus @KajMagnus2021-11-20 03:36:14.894Z
Now started working with this — will be fixed at the end of next week (unless something unplanned comes up in between).
- In reply tochrscheuer⬆:KajMagnus @KajMagnus2021-12-01 16:30:54.511Z
Now this has been implemented. Will upgrade Prod soon or tomorrow
(You'll see a search field, on the forum homepage here: /forum/ )
- CChristian Scheuer @chrscheuer
Wohoo!!
Just came here to say, great work :)- KajMagnus @KajMagnus2021-12-02 20:40:08.522Z
Ok :- ) I wonder if the search box by default should search only in any category selected below (rather than in the whole forum), if one has selected a category below.
Maybe, if one was in a specific category, there could be a checkbox below the search query field:
[x] Search only in the current category, i.e. The Current Cat Name
— then, one would/could understand how it worked, and un-tick, to search everywhere.(But if no category had been selected, the checkbox wouldn't appear)
- CChristian Scheuer @chrscheuer
That sounds like a great idea!
And ofc. once tags become more full-featured, the ability to add tags to one's search would be very cool too.
- Progresswith handling this problem