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Advanced Search

5 features

📋 Description

A streamlined search experience that helps users quickly find and act on relevant objects. It combines fast free-text suggestions with direct actions (e.g., checkout, edit properties) and a powerful full search for advanced criteria across all object properties.

💎 Business Value

Faster discovery, fewer clicks to act, and precision filtering when teams need depth.

🗺️ Roadmap Features (5)

Actionable suggestions

Execute common actions directly from suggestions—such as checkout or edit properties—reducing navigation overhead and accelerating workflow.

Advanced criteria & filters

On the full search page, define precise queries using all available object properties (profiles, classification, status, version/subversion, language) to narrow results confidently.

Free-text Search

Type to search with immediate results that default to matching object titles; quickly surface likely targets without complex filters.

Full search transition

Move from suggestions to a dedicated results view for comprehensive exploration when broader context or detailed comparison is needed.

Suggestion view

Lightweight, inline suggestions present the most relevant objects as you type, minimizing context switches and speeding up decisions.

📋 Backend Requirements (2)

Related requirement tasks from other projects

✓ 1.70 - System has a mechanism(s) for users to search for reusable content.

To Do

Description Supports component search; regex/xPath; semantic match during editing; future relationship visualiser. Platform Status: partially implemented PPT Status: Partly MVP: Yes Must Have: Priority 1 (A) Use Case Does the system support viewing a list of reusable content in the content repository? Current Challenges We can search products for for "name" of the object (essentially the title only) but we cannot search by applied metadata or terms within the topics. For example, we want to search to see if anything has been written about the cab for Fendt 700 because it will be reused in a JAX built product. Or we want to search for anything related to tier4f engines to update a safety step. Notes Superusers xPath or Regex? Not focus on too much. Currently implemented While editing, return a semantically similar component. Should be based on what the user is adding to the topic Admonition, or other sub-topic-component Future implementation Relationship visualiser Query for reusable components based on context What is being written (admonition) Which product Which meta-data filters are applied to the current topic Very XML editor dependant. Product Owner Notes Need UX and front end Notes: Context match; reusable component query; filters; XML editor dependent.

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✓ 1.80 - System supports search by author, phrase, keyword, metadata, etc.

To Do

Description Platform Status: supported PPT Status: Partly MVP: Yes Must Have: Priority 1 (A) Current Challenges Toolset currently allows search by product context, name, number, last modified date, created on date, keyword, object type, and organization name Notes solved by last requirement, advanced search Product Owner Notes Need UX and front end

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