Add a search field above the TableView - text search

[georgehrke]

Please make the files searchable by adding a search field right above the TableView.
(Like in the contacts app http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/iphone-contact-list.jpg)

UPDATED 05/09/17 @nasli
As final Design explained by @ggdiez here a new search bar is going to be added in the top of file list view.
This new bar is going to include also the shortcuts to sort the file list view.

IMPORTANT: As first approach, this search tabbar are going to filter files on the current local folder that contains the text entered in its file name.

For search over all your onwCloud server files will require an API that will be available on future versions of ownCloud. Meanwhile we can allow the search over current folder.

TASKS

• [DEV] Add search bar in the top of file list view
• [DEV] Placeholder with the wording "Search on this folder"
• [DEV] Filter local files on the current folder if their names contains the text introduced (as first approach)
• [NTH] Add menu icon to sort file list view
• [QA] Test plan

[rperezb]

Thanks for the suggestion.

This feature is registered on the product backlog, and it will be added in future releases.

[N1TeSH1FT]

Well, 1 year passed and the only thing added in newest releases are things like seeing when the last file update happened.

What about searching? This is the one main feature missing which keeps me using TeamDrive.

[supportreq]

this is a nice feature.. most of the apps provide this.. please add it..

[Bewo]

In my opinion this is the most missing feature in the mobile apps...!

This feature would bring the app 10 steps further in business use.

[ccsrsj]

Ditto. I've many thousands of files in a single work folder, because search has been the easiest way to find files for a long time. The app is completely unusable for me without the ability to sort by recently modified, or search.

[jancborchardt]

@MTRichards @rperezb do we have this in the backlog? I assume especially in an enterprise context with lots of files, search/filtering is very important.

We probably need to work with the server on this to first do local filtering and then search from server. @butonic @DeepDiver1975

[rperezb]

@jancborchardt yes we have it on the roadmap.

As you said, we´d need first the server api, otherwise, we would be searching only locally

[vistalba]

Same for me. Any ETA when search is avaiable in iOS App?

[javiergonzper]

@scream88 I think that the ownCloud server do not have an API of search so the iOS or Android app can not make search on the server by now...

[jancborchardt]

@DeepDiver1975 @PVince81 @butonic do we not have a search API from the server?

[butonic]

nope, still not implemented.

[gwes]

+1 for this feature. (as well as #391)

filtering / searching would make the iOS app loads more usable for larger directories.

Coding skills not so great but I'm happy to help test things

[jancborchardt]

@rperezb @MTRichards @ggdiez @javiergonzper can we move this community request up? (It’s similar for Android.)

[MTRichards]

As we have no search API from the server, this would be just a search of filenames at this time. That is something we can move up, though quite a lot to do before that.

[Froster]

Is there anything on the Roadmap?

Would very nice and helfpfull if this would be implemented.

[rperezb]

Same status, no search API from the server, backlog ftm

[Froster]

I think in the first step it would be enough to search in file names?

[MTRichards]

What we need is an API from the server to perform the search. It is on the backlog, but not with a date just yet. Of course, folks are welcome to accelerate this, but at this time we are looking at at least 9.1 to resolve this

[supportreq]

@rperezb @MTRichards are we having this in the upcoming release? or even a simple tableview based filter?

[MTRichards]

Right now, we are planning on a rather heavyweight elastic search cluster text search in 9.1 - hopefully this will make it. Then we can provide an API to this search and get the proper search text. However, this does require a rather extensive elastic search cluster setup before this can work...may not he all that helpful.

[jancborchardt]

So, how difficult is a tableview based filter for the current folder? @rperezb

[rperezb]

The key thing is that, if we want to implement this - just searching on the current folder, we have to be very clear of this fact in order to avoid misunderstanding.

As @MTRichards has said for a general search (whole server) we have to wait for the server API.

@jancborchardt in terms of complexity, it's not the problem, can you please suggest us a design idea of how you would do it?

[nasli]

In that case, I would suggest a placeholder with "search on this folder"

[supportreq]

@nasli looks good.. this will do for the time being

[jancborchardt]

Yup @nasli, good call. To keep it short I would suggest »Search in folder«.

[supportreq]

@nasli @rperezb are we having this anytime soon?

[NicolaiErtl]

+1 - to prevent misunderstanding - you can add an filter instead of search.

after server API with elastic search is avialable - you can improve this to an search

[rperezb]

@supportreq @N1TeSH1FT currently we are working on fixing some issues related to the latest iOS version and release a new version with this.
Probably, within the next version we will work on improving the management of some errors such as:

• Client does not recognize maintenance mode #714
• Check max upload size and server space availability before uploading a new file  #687
• Handle file firewall forbidden message and show it to the user. #494

We do agree on the importance of this feature, we have this on the list.
We may follow the development status thanks to the milestones and taking advantage of the zenHub board, we try to keep it updated!

[nasli]

Related on Android: owncloud/android#695

[JKawohl]

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[JKawohl]

@pmaier1 FYI

[CorneeldH]

From SURFdrive (25.000 users) also a +1 for this for the reasons mentioned (enterprise context with a lot of files).

[nasli]

This is in our roadmap and we are currently working on improving the file list view.
Updated first comment with the latest designs. :)

[nasli]

Keep in mind that for search over all your onwCloud server files will require an API that will be available on future versions of ownCloud. Meanwhile on mobile clients we can allow the search over current folder.

[CorneeldH]

looks good, thanks for the update! And let's hope future version of the server will enable a 'complete' search

[michaelstingl]

This is a first step on the server side: owncloud/core#26507 . For full server this side support, this needs to be fixed first: owncloud/core#13915

[michaelstingl]

Search API has been implemented on oC server and is planned to be included in oC 10.0.10: owncloud/core#25373 (comment)

[michaelstingl]

The ownCloud iOS team started to write a new iOS app from scratch. This version is deprecated and won't see major improvements.

Here you can find more information:
https://owncloud.org/news/working-brand-new-ios-app-sdk/

Roadmap of new iOS app:
owncloud/ios-app#94

The new iOS app already got a search field to filter files in the current folder (owncloud/ios-app#64) and real search is one of the next items on the roadmap: owncloud/ios-app#53