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Easily manage the contents of your storage account with Azure Storage Explorer. Upload, download, and manage blobs, files, queues, tables, and Cosmos DB entities. Gain easy access to manage your virtual machine disks. Work with either Azure Resource Manager or classic storage accounts, plus manage and configure cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) rules.
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Search and Filter needs work #7895

Closed RolandoAvila closed 2 months ago

RolandoAvila commented 2 months ago

Preflight Checklist

Problem

Every grid and list doesn't default to most recent and most can't search

Desired Solution

Every list no matter in menu or grid should be defaulted to most recent. I should also be able to do a quick search in that list to filter what I want. Multi select file share would be ideal.

Alternatives and Workarounds

None only one at a time.

Additional Context

Apply to any list or grid as a rule of thumb.

JasonYeMSFT commented 2 months ago

@RolandoAvila Could you please elaborate on which part of Storage Explorer do you refer to as "grid" and "list"? Could you please also describe the desirable behavior of a few scenarios as examples for us?

RolandoAvila commented 2 months ago

One example is navigating through the FileShares from the explorer. Unfortunately this is the only way to navigate through files. If I have a long list of files I have a hard time with this feature. The list by default display from oldest to newest. This feature should allow me to sort by something or at least display the list of files in the tab (on the right) so I can work with them like I can with Container or Queue items.

JasonYeMSFT commented 2 months ago

I still don't quite understand the scenario. Do you mean listing File Shares in the tree view or listing files in a File Share?

Listing File Share in the tree view:

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Listing files in a File Share:

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Both views by default sort items by the items' name in alphanumerical order. I don't see us listing anything from oldest to newest, no matter if it's creation time or last modified time.

If you are talking about listing files in a File Share, you can click the column headers to sort by that column. You can also enter a prefix in the search box to filter items by prefix in the name. If you want to sort/filter by anything not already present in the columns, please elaborate on what you are looking for.

If you are talking about sorting/filtering the File Shares in the tree view, this is a known pain point right now. We implemented a View All feature for blob containers and we plan to solve the lack of sort/filtering of tree view items there. If you like the View All feature feel free to upvote it. Otherwise, please let us know what you are look for. https://github.com/microsoft/AzureStorageExplorer/issues/7417

RolandoAvila commented 2 months ago

Sorry about the confusion Jason. Yes I was referring to the tree view for file shares. Thanks for letting me know about the View All feature. I will see how I can upvote it.