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Improve top bar search to help me find the results I want

Related products:Freshdesk
  • July 1, 2016
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I find the top bar search difficult to use - I rarely find what I am looking for.


Several improvements would make this better:


  • You can order the search results by "Relevance" -- but how is this judged? It doesn't seem to provide any relevance to me.

  • Only show results that match exactly (or let me choose this as an option).

    For example, I search for "Runtime Error 53" in my instance of Freshdesk, and then click to see just the tickets. Only the top 5 results actually contain hits for this. The rest of the search results hit on "Runtime Error" but are other error codes - I don't want to see these as they are not relevant to what I am looking for and it wastes my time looking through them.

  • Allow further filtering of search results to narrow down the results. E.g. receive 50 results back but filtering by company would let me narrow this to 5 options.

  • Allow field names to be specified in the search so that I can search only the fields that i want. (e.g. subject: "Error 1234" would only return tickets where this exact phrase was included in the subject line).

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  • July 4, 2016

I totally agree with you. Very important but missing functionality.


I was told (in a support ticket): "We are working on improving the search relevance on the helpdesk and it will be implemented soon. Only when the search relevancy is improved, we would be looking on the best approach to implement the field based search."


Also received the suggestion to follow this forum to get more updates: https://support.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/5678


aravind.sundararajan
Skilled Expert
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Hello,


You can search for the exact term by including the keyword in the operator <>. Furthermore, it is now possible to filter the ticket search results using the field values. To know more, please visit filtered search for tickets.


Cheers!