Description Christian Castens 2021-09-13 22:05:43 CEST

Created attachment 10821 [details]
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I find that the current search behaviour of the portal can be improved and would like to suggest something that is not too far from the current design.


Current behaviour:
When providing the search box in the upper right hand corner of the portal with a search pattern that matches names of available modules, the current design's final search result is an overview of all folders in which modules with matching names exist. That's it. Even if there is only one matching module for the search pattern.

Problem:
I have to look into folders myself and go through every module name to see what modules potentially match my search pattern!

In my opinion it would greatly improve user experience if the search functionality was helping out a bit more...



Suggested behaviour:
For search patterns that result in a single folder being shown, that folder should open directly and mark all matching modules visually. Furthermore, after the folder opened automatically, there should be an automatic scroll down towards the location of the first matching/marked module (This helps when there are multiple pages or many rows of modules inside of a folder and matching results are not seen at first sight after a folder opens).

For search patterns that match various modules located in multiple different folders I actually find the current design good (folder view). Nonetheless, matching modules should still be marked inside of the "search result folders" when you manually open them.