New to Baserow, and have build a DB and everything seems well so far and quite like the product. The only issue that I am having is that my users need to be able to find a value without knowing on which table it is. And I haven’t been able to figure out if there’s a way to do this.
I can see that it is simple enough to search within each tables, but I am after some sort of a global search on the dasboard for example?
I moved from Airtable because their search is somewhat pathetic, slow and not very useful. The search at table level is good with Baserow so I am hopping for the best and that there is a global search somewhere and have not found it.
Thanks!
Happy to hear your positive feedback! Unfortunately, the global search is not available yet in Baserow, but we have plans to build it. Currently, the search works for a specific table.
Hello @arno, I’ve checked with the team on the ETA of this request, and unfortunately, it has a very low priority for now. I’ll move this your request to the category Feature Ideas, and if we have other people asking about this feature, we will try to prioritize the development of it
A powerful search is worth a lot, especially if you also want to store disorganized information in the tables, notes, knowledge and contexts. I have an Obsidian that covers this well, but I also miss this function in Baserow. Since I will or want to store a lot in Baserow, I need a function that gives me hits for a search term as globally as possible or at least adjustable with an authorization concept. Perhaps it is possible to determine which columns are included in the index so that complete notations do not have to be indexed. I often search for things where I don’t even know if I have already created information before because as a knowledge worker I have to cover a lot of topics. It helps enormously if you can browse through your knowledge base in this way. of course you can also cover this somehow in a table, but I think this is a limitation of the otherwise very powerful search. I particularly like the fact that the table rows that do not match the search can be hidden.
Hey @leonhard, thanks for sharing your feedback! I understand and agree with your points. Let me discuss this feature with the team again, as I can’t find a relevant issue for it.
