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Highlight regular expression support

Open DillonJ opened this issue 11 months ago • 2 comments

I've only recently come to appreciate the power of regular expressions in toolbox... particularly filtering the parameter value object_name_list column. It's very powerful. I wonder if it's well known and if it should be highlighted more in the UI that it's supported. At least a tool-tip perhaps... or instead of "search" you could have "search(regex supported)" or something ?

DillonJ avatar Mar 13 '24 09:03 DillonJ

Indeed, we should advertise the feature more. For example, Exporter's Filter column uses a regular expression editor with a link to some documentation:

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The placeholder text could also mention that a regular expression is accepted.

soininen avatar Mar 13 '24 12:03 soininen

Ah yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking of - perhaps an idea is to do something similar in every search/filter field that supports regex.

DillonJ avatar Mar 13 '24 14:03 DillonJ