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Board Search box and Home/End key behavior

  • December 15, 2022
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Update the search box to react to Home and End keys as they are more commonly used. For example “Ctrl+F” starts the search. After typing some search text, I would expect:

  1. “Home” move the cursor to the start of the search box
  2. “End” move the cursor to the end of the search box
  3. “Shift” + “Home” selects all search text before the cursor
  4. “Shift” + “End” selects all search text after the cursor

Home and End currently move to the first and last search result.

This would be helpful because I frequently use the search and constantly change the search criteria. The search saves the previous search criteria and it would be helpful to be able to use the expected behavior of the Home and End keys to quickly select all the search text and clear/change it using ONLY the keyboard.

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Robert Johnson
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  • Robert Johnson
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  • December 15, 2022

Hi @Bryan Daugherty. I believe you are specifically referring to the board search box and not the dashboard search box as I tested this myself and found that, yes, the Home/End keys are not recognized in the board search box.

Update the search box to react to Home and End keys as they are more commonly used.

I cannot remember the last time I used the Home/End keys in the past 20 years – I’m not saying I haven’t at all, but the scenario is so rare I cannot remember. The main reason for this is that on both my laptop and desktop keyboards, the Home/End keys are not in a convenient location. Additionally, on my laptop the Home/End keys are F keys and I have to use the Function key to activate these, i.e., the Function key is preferred over using Function Lock as I regularly use the F keys.

Arrow Keys

While you wait for Miro to address this issue, I would suggest you consider using the arrow keys instead as you may find them more flexible/useful overall. Here are some options:

  • Move word-by-word – Ctrl + left/right arrow
  • Move to the end of a block of words (e.g., a search box) – Ctrl + right arrow (as many times as there words – in the case of a search box I find there are not many words and holding down the arrow key with Ctrl gets me to the end quickly).
  • Select entire words – Ctrl + Shift + left/right arrow
  • Select multiple lines/entire block of text – Ctrl + Shift + up/down arrow

As for clearing the search box completely, I find it easier/quicker to do a Ctrl + A (to select all text) with with my left hand and they pressing the Delete key with my right hand (of just typing over the selected text).

I tested all of the above scenarios from Windows 10 & 11 and it works in the Miro desktop app and Chrome.

Wish List

Since your post is to request a change in functionality, I will move it to the Wish List category:

 

 

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Thanks @Robert Johnson! You are correct. I am referring to the board search, but now that I’ve had a chance to test your suggestions (which all work on the board search, BTW), I see that the keyboard interaction between the board and dashboard search is slightly different. This is a bit odd from a user experience perspective. Might be something else to consider when updating the searches.

Robert Johnson
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