UX: Searching for ActionTasks is cumbersome

[zsoik]

The search fields could be more powerful to find stuff you actually look for. Especially the search field in the task selection popup is basically useless when looking for a specific generic action, e.g. “SendEvent<Transform>” – when you search for “send event transform”, it will not find the action task. With a lot of custom types defined, the task selection popup list will get very long and you’re back to manually looking through the items, trying to decipher the tiny font to find what you actually look for 😉

Splitting the search query into words and then check if each word exists in the name of an item already helps dramatically (that’s what I’ve done locally to keep frustration to a minimum). I’d also suggest to include the whole path of an item in the search instead of just the name, so if you look for actions from a certain category, those are found too.

[Gavalakis]

Hey,
There is definitely room for improvement here.
I just implemented your suggestion where the search is split and checked separately for words. It indeed works much better now 🙂
Thanks!

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