Support quotes and wildcard in Search function

[Moritz_Hagen-Pletten]

Please fix! This is a really improtant feature!

[Armando_Navarrete]

Agreed, this is really important, please fix.

[Jeff_B]

ADD THE SEARCH FEATURE FOR PARTIAL WORDS/NUMBERS ASANA THIS IS FOUR YEARS!!! YOU GUYS ARE RIDICULOUS

[David_Nelson]

Hi @Moritz_Hagen-Pletten, @Jeff_B, and @Armando_Navarrete, welcome to the community! Thank you for weighing in on this topic. Please vote for this feature at the top of this thread if you have not already done so.

[Jeff_B]

Is there a way to merge it with this same inquiry? It’s basically the same but has more votes. Now that’s 127 votes combine and I’m sure everyone wants this done.

Support quotes and wildcard in Search function

Hi Asana, Love using your product as our daily workspace. It’s been a few years now, and with our growing amount of content we’re starting to have a hard time with the limited search options. It’s hard to find any information from you about plans to update the Search function so hoping for a response here. Here are our specific issues/requests: Wildcard search - Any plans to implement? We have several categories of tasks with different prefixes like TT, MS, and SP. We’d like to be able to fi…

[Moritz_Hagen-Pletten]

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[Sherrill_Olivas]

I’ve been waiting for this improvement for over a year as well. I see all the comments and am really surprised that this feature request only has 129 votes as of today. I’ve already voted for it but if you want this feature and haven’t voted for it, please do so as soon as you can.

[Jeff_B]

I’m not one to do it, but maybe someone wants to see if they can drum up support in another thread.

[Gabriel_Retana]

I’m here voting. Search needs all that. I think exact phrase search it’s something that everyone needs when searching in projects.

[Frederik_Schuettler]

Dear Asana-Team,

Obviously the live suggestions when entering a keyword in the searchbar can search for (at least lefthand) parts of a word. Yet when hitting enter, I get 0 results, if I do not finish the word.

The screenshot might describe it best.

Please do incorporate search syntax operators or at least a wildcard!

[Phil_Seeman]

@Frederik_Schuettler,

In case you haven’t seen it, here is a related discussion:

Don't hit ENTER when you search!

This might seem obvious to most but I’ve see this done numerous times by my clients during training sessions when we discuss using the Search bar. Many users type something in the search bar and immediately hit the Enter key to get to see the results, as if they were using a search engine like Google, because that is what we intuitively do, right? But there is a clear difference when you use the search bar in Asana: [image] When you type and hit the Enter key: So…

[lpb]

@Frederik_Schuettler,

I’ve merged your post into an existing thread where you can click the title to scroll to the top and vote by clicking the purple Vote button.

You may also want to vote here too:

Search Operator Syntax

Are there any plans to support quotation marks in search (or advanced search)? Put simply, there needs to be a way to search for a phrase in as tasks title, description, etc. Right now, there doesn’t seem to be a way to do this. With limits on the number of custom fields any given project can have, this feature is a must as it’s the only way to find a set of tasks that match a certain criteria not covered in a custom field. Any thoughts, Asana? Appreciate you guys, Matt

Thanks,

Larry