Solr Admin Ui: search with contains in solr core/collection drop down

[renatoh]

This is a small quality of life improvement. With this small change collection/cores in the drop down are searched with a contains, now the collection name 'catalog1-products' is found by typing 'product' into the search box above the drop down. This is especially useful if you have many collections.

[epugh]

Looks like you added and then removed changes?

[renatoh]

hi @epugh:)
I undid the changes and then accidentally committed it.
I am wondering if we could also change the behavior for the drop down on the analyzer and the schema page. Imo, it is a pain not to to filter with a contains, so you always need to remember the exact name of the field/field-type in order to filter it for it.

[epugh]

hi @epugh:) I undid the changes and then accidentally committed it. I am wondering if we could also change the behavior for the drop down on the analyzer and the schema page. Imo, it is a pain not to to filter with a contains, so you always need to remember the exact name of the field/field-type in order to filter it for it.

I'm open to it! Major improvements I'd rather see go in the new UI, but refining existing UX is always a good thing.

[renatoh]

I'm open to it! Major improvements I'd rather see go in the new UI, but refining existing UX is always a good thing.

from what I have seen the new UI is not exactly around the corner;)
I have change it for the other drop downs which can be filtered as well, so the behavior is consistent.

[malliaridis]

Major improvements I'd rather see go in the new UI

Already noted. 💪

[renatoh]

@epugh Do you think we can merge these small changes?

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR enhances the search functionality in Solr Admin UI dropdowns by enabling substring matching instead of prefix-only matching. This allows users to find collections, cores, fields, and field types by typing any part of the name, which is particularly valuable when working with many items.

Changes:

• Added search-contains="true" attribute to collection and core selector dropdowns in the main index page
• Added search-contains="true" attribute to field/type selector dropdowns in schema and analysis pages
• Fixed trailing whitespace in schema.html
• Added changelog entry documenting the improvement

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
solr/webapp/web/index.html	Added search-contains to collection and core selector dropdowns for improved searchability
solr/webapp/web/partials/schema.html	Added search-contains to field/type selector dropdown and removed trailing whitespace
solr/webapp/web/partials/analysis.html	Added search-contains to field/type selector dropdown with improved formatting
changelog/unreleased/GITHUB#4121-improve-search-in-dropdown.yml	Added changelog entry documenting the enhancement

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[epugh]

@renatoh so, if this is working for you, maybe it's just me.... I can't get it to work! Here is a video I recorded... Any advice? Can you link to the docs for the select handler?

Quality.of.Life.Debugging.in.Search.Contains.mp4

I suppose, if it works for you, then I can merge ;-).

[renatoh]

Hi @epugh

Thanks for testing it and for the video.

I've retested it, works fine for me as you can see on these screenshots below. I've tested in in FF and Chrome. Have you cleared the browser cache or tried in in a private browser tab?

I belief this is what we use:

https://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/options.html