Recent changes to 2813: Keyboard shortcut to search group name

#2813 Keyboard shortcut to search group name

Ron — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 09:19:32 -0000

Thank you Dominik. Yes - the 'Group path' indeed appears to work. I just assumed it had to be the 'Group Name'. I notice that 'Group Name' automatically gets added when selecting 'Group Path'.

PS. Paul. Thanks also for your input. Appreciate it.. but it helps to find the searched word no matter where it is.

#2813 Keyboard shortcut to search group name

Dominik Reichl — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 20:07:34 -0000

Don't you want to use the 'Group path' option instead of the 'Group name' option?

Best regards,
Dominik

#2813 Keyboard shortcut to search group name

Paul — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:39:56 -0000

searching for 'ABCD' will not find group MAIN GROUP ABCD

What you may be seeing is the behaviour of an empty group. Unless the group has an entry, not a sub-group, the group will not be found in your search.
This is probably not what most people would expect from a group search.

cheers, Paul

#2813 Keyboard shortcut to search group name

Ron — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:13:30 -0000

or a much simpler option would be to add a search field above the group names - that will search the group ( and sub-group ) names only. Would be great to have...

PS. At the moment, when i go into the advanced search field.. select Simple Expression + Group Name only - and search for a word - it lists a few correct groups but does not list all of them. I have just tried that now again. It looks like it finds the word only in the bottom of the tree - not on higher group names.

Example:

MAIN GROUP ABCD
- sub group 12345
- sub-sub group zxcv 98765

searching for 'ABCD' will not find group MAIN GROUP ABCD - even though there are individual items listed under each of those groups and sub-groups.

#2813 Keyboard shortcut to search group name

T. Bug Reporter — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 03:55:22 -0000

I think the OP's point here is that the Search... field in the toolbar is not as useful as it could be for him (and probably many others) because the default (i.e. only) options for this search do not meet his needs. Yes, it is possible to open the full Find dialog and configure it the way you want, and/or save that configuration for later use - but only from this same dialog.

Perhaps a Feature Request is in order here: I'm envisioning a sort of "magic profile name", that, when it exists, is used as the options settings for toolbar searches. (BTW: Is it documented anywhere as to exactly what parameters this search uses by default?)

#2813 Keyboard shortcut to search group name

wellread1 — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 20:02:50 -0000

Why isn't (Ctrl+Shift+F) Find>Find in Selected Group... a satisfactory solution?

The solution above already exists. It offers a flexible way to search within a specific group. Though I am not the developer, I doubt your feature request will survive if you can't provide a satisfactory answer to the above question.

Some alternate approaches to selecting an important subset of entries (within or across groups) or of using the password of a specific entry to login to an account:

Use tags to quickly access a frequently needed entry or more practically a small group of related entries. For example tag your gmail accounts 'Gmail', then use Find>Tag>Gmail to show the entries tagged 'Gmail'.
Use the global auto-type hotkey to login to an email account without having to find the entry manually. See https://keepass.info/help/base/autotype.html for more details.

Keyboard shortcut to search group name

Ron — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 14:36:49 -0000

Hello. Please can we revisit this request https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/feature-requests/2359/.
Instead of using the standard dialog box etc - can you please provide an option that can be typed directly into the search field.

Example:
I have my email included in an EMAIL group and also in several other social and website groups ( since we use email address for several weblogins etc ) . If I need to find my email password ( because it is a complex one created using keepass ) - I would like to search quickly in the search box - without the use of a mouse or forms or dialog boxes.

Normally, a search for the email will result in a long list of data - including groups and subgroups that contain this info ( which is often enough to make is cross eyed for a few minutes ! ) Finding the right one is often like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Instead, if we could just type something like the following into the search field:
(groupname:Email) someone@gmail.com

As a result, ideally, I would like the group name ( or subgroup name ) called EMAIL listed at the top of the list and containing the email 'someone@gmail.com'