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Less confusing unified search folder picker #49673
Description
⚠️ This issue respects the following points: ⚠️
- This is a bug, not a question or a configuration/webserver/proxy issue.
- This issue is not already reported on Github OR Nextcloud Community Forum (I've searched it).
- Nextcloud Server is up to date. See Maintenance and Release Schedule for supported versions.
- I agree to follow Nextcloud's Code of Conduct.
Bug description
Steps to reproduce
- Click to "unified search"
- Click in places > choose "in folder"
- Dialog heading asks for plain text files. (no translation and confusing at best)
- Empty content says 'upload content or sync with your device' - which is not relevant to search either.
- New button on top allows to create a new folder to then search.
Expected behavior
- A translated string of 'Select folder to search in' or the like to clearly indicate what this dialog is for.
- Empty content stating
This folder has no subfoldersor so. - No new button.
Original report
This issue was previously about the dialog showing an empty file list. Which indicates how confusing the ui currently is.
Original report
- Click to "unified search"
- Click in places > choose "in folder"
- Select a folder where are some files available
- “No files in here” will be shown even though there are files in the folder
Expected behavior
Whole folder content have to be shown
Activity
max-nextcloud commentedon Jan 2, 2025
I think this is a confusion. The dialogue that shows no files is for selecting the folder to search in. It only shows folders not files.
One thing that makes this confusing is the heading of the file picker:
Pick plain text files. This should readPick folder to search inor so.@JuliaKirschenheuter I'll update this report accordingly - hope that's fine.
[-][Bug]: Empty folder is shown by choosing it via unified search[/-][+][Bug]: Unified search folder picker has wrong heading: "Pick plain text files"[/+][-][Bug]: Unified search folder picker has wrong heading: "Pick plain text files"[/-][+][Bug]: Unified search folder picker is confusing[/+][-][Bug]: Unified search folder picker is confusing[/-][+]Less confusing unified search folder picker[/+]schiessle commentedon Jul 23, 2025
Isn't this rather a bug than a feature request? For what I can say the labels are clearly wrong in this context.
Aveyron-RetD commentedon Nov 20, 2025
I think for the time being this search button should be completely removed, it brings more confusion than anything valuable
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