Coding 'Text' Search button needs way of navigating to next/previous instance or filtering

[OwenPetersonTC]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The current 'search' function to find a Code by it's name is very limited. It returns the first instance only and you can't advance to the next one or previous one.

Describe the solution you'd like
Either add a filtering option where the list of Codes dynamically limits itself to just those containing the desired text or adding a next/previous function to the search box

Describe alternatives you've considered
I've taken to exporting my Code names to Notepad and searching them there. This is cumbersome and doesn't work when new codes are added. I could also write an SQL query to gather these, but again you are flipping between Coding and Reports

Thank you for considering. I appreciate having a free open source tool

[ccbogel]

@OwenPetersonTC Hi can you give me an example , maybe with pictures of where this is happening, to guide me to the problem. I am guessing this is not in the 'codes tree'

[Salomon-Mazatlan]

Hi,
I believe this refers to the following situation:

When using the “Find Code” button to search for a code, if there are multiple codes with similar names, the system only navigates to the first match.

This can become problematic in projects with large code systems or many similarly named codes (which is quite common when working with typologies), especially for users who are not familiar with regex-based search.

We could consider implementing something like this:

[ccbogel]

Ah yes, I understand now. I have some time to look at this.

[ccbogel]

OK improved this now.

[OwenPetersonTC]

Thank you @ccbogel.

The error I made was not fully watching your intro videos and not having done this kind of coding work before (I'm a software eng turned pilot) I likely just launched into it faster than I should have. RTFM would have served me well... doh! or in this case WTFVs :)

I have 3500+ survey textual responses (to one question) and I wasn't sure what the narrative text would tell me so I naively decided to create overly verbose code names and then sort them into the categories tree structure later. I probably have 150+ codes at this point.

To be fully honest I missed the 'right click' filter option until yesterday and the other right click options like 'add new category'. In hindsight I would have started with creating categories from the very beginning, but I'm 85% of the way through coding at this point. So I'll reorganized afterwards

In my case I am likely not going to use the advanced report functions, I needed a tool to try and capture/cluster the key themes I heard from the public on a specific technical topic and then distill this into a cohesive subset of the frequent feedback, learnings and opinions.

Thank you for the quick improvements truly great to see for an OS project! I plan to show your tool to my colleague and suggest they use it for future public survey result analysis work.