In 22.3 the "global search bar" has been centralized somewhat and pinned to the top bar of /Design, with added functionality, which is neat.
However the "floating" bar invoked by pressing CTRL-Space is no longer "floating", meaning the CTRL-Space hotkey no longer works at all in a very important (to me, at least) use case: during pop-up dialogs (eg the deployment pop-up, missing precedents, etc).
The way it worked before: even if I have a missing precedent checker or deployment window open, but still want to search for and/or open some object, I could just hit CTRL-Space and search:(from 22.2)
Meanwhile, after upgrading to 22.3, we can see the "search objects" bar hanging out in the background but being completely useless even if I spam the CTRL-Space hotkey:
I can't speak for others here, but I estimate that I personally used this functionality very often to look up and/or open objects I need even when in the middle of a pop-up dialog I don't want to interrupt (or sometimes to check for something that I think should be included in it, etc).
CLARIFYING EDIT: the CTRL-Space search STILL DOES WORK (just... moved slightly, not "floating", but with some nice details added) when not obstructed by a pop-up dialog (like the Missing Precedents checker or the Deployment Sequence).
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No CTRL+Space search in 22.3?? Well that is a bummer, I use this daily also :(
One of my biggest use cases is quick checks during meetings, "what is the division logic on that approval", "is the threshold 25 or 30k for that approval" etc. CRTL+Space, and I have the answer within seconds. I will look less smart without this feature...
Got my vote to bring it back!
Chris said:No CTRL+Space search in 22.3?? Well that is a bummer
Well, that's not what I said, sorry if I gave the wrong impression.
To be clear: It just no longer functions as a "floating" search bar, and thus doesn't work at all when obstructed by one of the pop-up mechanisms I specifically mentioned in my post. But at other times it works fine - but the specific mechanic has been tweaked such that the always-shown search bar is focused when the user presses CTRL-Space. In those cases the overall functionality remains basically unchanged (just ... moved a bit. and with some nice extra detail added).
Mike Schmitt said:Well, that's not what I said, sorry if I gave the wrong impression.
Sorry, gotcha, "..the CTRL-Space hotkey no longer works at all [in some situations]". At any rate, the best part about CTRL+Space is that it works always! (don't have a 22.3 environment here to test on)
Chris said:At any rate, the best part about CTRL+Space is that it works always!
Yeah, i'm missing this at the moment. I always liked not having to cancel out of whatever I was in the middle of doing in order to search for and/or open an object (i.e. the whole point of this post lol)