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KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.
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Searching the Database: Document attributes/fields which are searched #11467

Open jkirk opened 1 week ago

jkirk commented 1 week ago

Overview

Neither the documentation nor the Search Help indicates which attributes/fields are searched when no modifiers or fields are specified.

Steps to Reproduce

Read the documentation:

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/blob/2fc24be331aaff2c7dfd5d809d2057e497f5471d/docs/topics/DatabaseOperations.adoc?plain=1#L185-L243

Expected Behavior

Tell the user which attributes/fields are searched by default.

Actual Behavior

Tell the user needs to guess attributes/fields are searched by default.

Context

Also #7967 mentions that it is not obvious which fields are used to search the content:

Currently, typing text to search will look through some subset of fields (not sure what they are exactly; [...]

KeePassXC - Version 2.7.4 Revision: 63b2394

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