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Search bar should index nested API properties

Open PaulAsjes opened this issue 10 months ago • 1 comments

Which Fern component?

Fern Docs

How important is this?

P2 - Medium (Would be helpful)

What's the feature?

There is currently no way to search an API reference page for nested properties. They are hidden by default on the page so cmd + f won't work. Instead the integrated search bar should index API reference properties and return relevant results.

Any alternatives?

No response

Anything else? (Optional)

No response

Are you interested in contributing this feature?

No

PaulAsjes avatar Mar 03 '25 14:03 PaulAsjes

We are affected by the same issue. Our API has a lot of nested properties and the site search knows nothing about them. I would expect that both the names and descriptions of nested properties are properly indexed for search.

Also reproducible in Fern documentation - searching for identifierOverride does not find the endpoint that uses this field.

hkosova avatar Mar 20 '25 13:03 hkosova