Enable all-inclusive search for the Dashboard Search

[rcontiuk]

Enable a global search when using the Dashboard Search feature to retrieve reports, report settings, widgets, etc., similar to a search engine page result.

For example, when typing "diving" in Matomo demo, the search result would show a list of URLs containing "/diving":

Then users click on one of the results and it would show visits with "/diving", similar to when using the segment TEST button.

Another example, when clicking on the result of "diving" search, it would open the edit goal page.

Similar principle, open a Heatmap or Custom Report edit page.

The result page would look like this:

[rcontiuk]

Also, the search showing the Activity Log records would be very handy.

[michalkleiner]

Hi @rcontiuk, thank you for your enhancement suggestion.
I see you already commented on #21267 which is quite similar to this, so I'd say we should keep the conversation there. With that I will close this issue as a duplicate, but feel free to comment here if you think the issues are unrelated or it's warranted to have them both in which case please provide more details on why they should stay separate. Thank you for your understanding.

[atom-box]

That other story
#21267 is to make the following thing searchable:

• "metrics"

This story is to make the following searchable:

• Activity Log records,
• reports,
• report settings,
• Heatmap or Custom Report edit page,
• edit Goals

Totally different implementation in the code. And the points estimation would be huge if combined.

[michalkleiner]

Thanks @atom-box. I'd leave that up to the product team and the developers to tackle that in terms of work split and estimates etc. I think it makes sense to have this under one enhancement to start with so that the architectural changes needed consider all the different areas to add content from, and then the implementation for each can be worked on in stages.

[rcontiuk]

A user asked if there is an easy way to search for visitor ID without using the "segment test" feature.
The all-inclusive search should easily retrieve the visit log for a particular visitor ID and the selected date showing this: