Search in selcted shelfs

[stothew]

Describe the feature you'd like

as you can search in books we would love to see a feature to search in a shelf or tick/untick shelves on the left corner of a global search.

Describe the benefits this would bring to existing BookStack users

this way you could filter the search and reduce the number of unwanted search results on bigger libraries.

Can the goal of this request already be achieved via other means?

no

Have you searched for an existing open/closed issue?

• [X] I have searched for existing issues and none cover my fundemental request

How long have you been using BookStack?

1 to 5 years

Additional context

No response

[ssddanbrown]

Thanks for the request @stothew,

Would just the addition of a search bar to the shelf, to search within, as per the books view, cover your needs? Providing a select/checklist for shelves within the search interface would require a lot of custom UI and handling to implement properly, which I don't think would be worth to be honest since there's been little other demand, but I could see some value in aligning book and shelf behaviour.

[stothew]

Thank you for the reply. The addition of a search bar to the shelf, to search within, would totally fulfill my needs! And yes, in my opinion, this would also add more consistency to the UI and enhance the freedom for own Data structures.

[helson22]

I also would like such a feature! I think it's a must :-)

[vincentbernat]

Any indication on how to implement this? I could help. I would like to be able to search in a book, but a shelf is also a good target.

[stothew]

for books, this already exists... If you select a specific/single book you get a search bar on the top left side menu to search only within this book. Anyway, I would still love to search on shelves. So feel free to help :)