New Suggested 8/31/2023 by Kristoffer Lindstrøm

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Improve asset search experience: making advanced search availble from

One thing I always found awkward with assets is the way search works.

With the kind of stuff I do, I essentially always need a total of three clicks to get to the view I want. Specifically, I always want the advanced search view which means I go through the following five screens:


  1. Go to assets and click “Search…”.

  2. Click ”Advanced…”.

  3. Enter my parameters and click ”search assets”.

  4. Now I get the desired view containing both the asset list and the “advanced…” button.

  5. I even have to click the “advanced…” button yet again if I want the filters to be visible.


The above seems like it’s way more bothersome than it needs to be. Specifically, I have two suggestions which, at least for me, would result in a markedly improved UI/UX:


  1. All the above views should be combined into one. What I imagine is that the first view - the one you get when you click “Assets” - should contain all the options you get in the other views, so it ends up having the advanced filtering options seen in view 5 as well as everything in view (1). I.e. view (1) should have the “advanced…” button, allowing you to get all the filters seen in view 5.
    I’m not sure what I think should happen to “quick search” I always found it somewhat useless to be frank. One problem is that it doesn’t allow you filter, but only pick one specific result. With the changes I suggest, I imagine it would not have much use anymore, but you might have some better insights into how it’s used of course.
You should be able to do “live” filtering, meaning when I input something in the “name” search box or select a “type”, I want the list of assets (which should always be visible below) to immediately be filtered


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