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Content field ("Contains Words") should have more emphasis in Advanced search form
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I'm pretty sure 99% of the time someone uses the advanced search form, they need the Contains Words field (possibly in combination with In [Any/All] Projects), yet that field is not emphasized in any way, and is hidden in the middle of a huge search form. That contributes to the overall poor user experience of searching in Phabricator, IMO. At least the field should be on top (and preferably visually separated), like in Bugzilla.

The search query field should also come first, as it does in the general advanced search and in about every search form ever seen on the web.

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Tgr created this task.Dec 8 2014, 6:27 PM
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Nemo_bis mentioned this in T135327: Decide Phabricator improvements to be funded by WMF Technical Collaboration.May 18 2016, 9:25 PM
Aklapper renamed this task from Content field should have more emphasis in advanced search form to Content field ("Contains Words") should have more emphasis in Advanced search form.May 22 2016, 2:39 PM
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https://secure.phabricator.com/T6717#87035 states that for the upstream instance, the 99% currently mentioned in this task description are 32% for them.

After this task was created, the upper corner search textfield has received a feature to allow decreasing the application search scope via a dropdown in order to only "Search current application" (e.g. Maniphest) which could be used to search for tasks containing certain words only. This still won't cover the combination with specific projects though, obviously.

This task would welcome data about our instance but I have no idea how to gather that.

Adjusting priority to reflect reality.
Also removing Phabricator (Upstream) as this has been wontfix'ed in upstream.

Liuxinyu970226 mentioned this in T106687: Flow does not support varying language of parts of content based on user interface language (e.g. {{int:}}).Jan 22 2017, 3:20 PM
Aklapper closed this task as Resolved.Aug 1 2018, 8:52 AM

Advanced search form does not have "Contains Words" anymore and "Query" is in the first place now. Closing as resolved.

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