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Create advanced crew search controls

Open ineffyble opened this issue 3 years ago • 6 comments

We've continued to expand ways you can search and filter crew, but the single text field can be confusing or unintuitive.

A few separate controls, shown if user clicks "Advanced Search", could go a long way to making it easier.

For example, have a section for "traits" which uses tags type input. Have a section for skills that lets the user tick "has MED" or select which primary skill to search for, etc etc.

ineffyble avatar Apr 02 '21 12:04 ineffyble

It would be exceptionally helpful here if you could, while in Player Tools (https://datacore.app/playertools) -> Crew, use the search field to filter by tier, for example:

If you type in "Tier 2" it should find all matching crew that are within that tier under the "Level __, Tier __" attribute field:

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ylluminate avatar Apr 19 '21 20:04 ylluminate

You can sort by tier by clicking the Crew column multiple times.

ineffyble avatar Apr 19 '21 23:04 ineffyble

I'm sorry @ineffyble, I'm not seeing how this solves the problem: I'm trying to illustrate that having the ability to search for only "Tier 2" for example as I have above, should filter the text that is there in the resultant rows below. This would make it possible, as a use case, to show only the crew that one has that is at "Tier 2" and then share this result with a fleet for discussion or to allow you to make other interesting matches.

ylluminate avatar Apr 20 '21 00:04 ylluminate

@ylluminate ah okay, your first comment said "sort" not "filter" which led me down wrong path

ineffyble avatar Apr 20 '21 00:04 ineffyble

Right, gotcha, thanks and I've replaced that term to indicate the appropriate function. Maybe "Search..." should also be renamed "Search / Filter..." instead of just "Search..." too.

ylluminate avatar Apr 20 '21 13:04 ylluminate

Another thing that would be useful is if filtering/search could be added to the "Crew Retrieval" tab functionality. That would, with the above filtering option for other fields, be incredibly useful.

ylluminate avatar Apr 20 '21 22:04 ylluminate