Unified SearchPanes and SearchBuilder as a SearchPanel (or FilterPanel)

tacman1123

SearchPanes and SearchBuilder are very similiar from the user's perspective -- a way to filter data.

When I shop on Amazon, those filters are all in the same column, which seems intuitive.

I think it'd be helpful to have a "Search Panel" that could be populated with anything that filters the data: searchPanes (aka facets), range sliders for things like dates and numbers (e.g. prices).

I realize this isn't easy, the dynamic nature of searchPanes is already complicated, but I figured I would add this discussion to the forum. I love the searchPanes feature, it's core to our browsing experience, but we've struggled a bit to get searchBuilder working as we want. Regardless, visually it'd be nice to have the option to order and add those to a single pane.

"Search" is perhaps not the right word. Meilisearch uses "search" to mean full-text search, and filter to mean other operations like IN or greater than.

allan

Sound like a good plan - thanks for the suggestion. Improving the search options available is certainly high on the agenda for DataTables

Allan