Narrow down Instant Search Field result in CORE

Created on 26 January 2017, almost 9 years ago

Updated 9 September 2025, about 2 months ago

Problem/Motivation

In D8, we added Search Input for Module page, View UI..etc. It searches every word on the page (tables).

For example, on View UI "Add Fields", it searches TITLE + DESCRIPTION. More often, developers create the fields in Field UI first and then add in View UI. They know the Field name already. We expected Title column result only.

(In this screenshot, we expected RED LINE result more than above items.)

Proposed resolution

- Add filters and default to search main field (narrower result)

Remaining tasks

- Design a common pattern for UI
- Patch

User interface changes

- TBA

API changes

- TBA

Data model changes

- TBA

📌 Task

Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

base system

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🇭🇰Hong Kong droplet

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Usability
Makes Drupal easier to use. Preferred over UX, D7UX, etc.

stale-issue-cleanup
To track issues in the developing policy for closing stale issues, [Policy, no patch] closing older issues

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Comment about 2 months ago →
🇺🇸United States smustgrave
Thank you for creating this issue to improve Drupal.

We are working to decide if this task is still relevant to a currently supported version of Drupal. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or is no longer relevant. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

Thanks!

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