Search results should include more metadata

[rfool]

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• [X] This is a bug, not a question or a configuration/webserver/proxy issue.
• [X] This issue is not already reported on Github OR Nextcloud Community Forum (I've searched it).
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Bug description

Advanced Search is a nice feature - on first sight.

But to be actually helpful and being reliable in real-world use-cases, some things are missing:

Results meta-data: at least a timestamp plus some entity-specific meta-data (e.g. a "last modified" timestamp on files, issues, tasks, etc., a "closed" timestamp on merge requests, a "from" and "to" on emails, and so on..).

Steps to reproduce

1. use advanced search
2. in actual real-world
3. use-cases

Expected behavior

Search results augmented with relevant meta-data.

Installation method

None

Nextcloud Server version

27

Operating system

None

PHP engine version

None

Web server

None

Database engine version

None

Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?

None

Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?

None

What user-backends are you using?

• [ ] Default user-backend (database)
• [ ] LDAP/ Active Directory
• [ ] SSO - SAML
• [ ] Other

Configuration report

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List of activated Apps

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Nextcloud Signing status

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Nextcloud Logs

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Additional info

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[rfool]

Oh, my fault. E-Mail results already have timestamps and "From" addresses.

But it would anyway be useful, when files would also show with their last modified date.

And, I think, results from plugins should show with a last modified timestamp too - maybe by default?

Example: when result contains "gitlab merge requests", then these results are mostly unusable (because they have no hint whether they are from last week or from three years ago).

Plugin results should also have a "status" flag: e.g. Issues and merge requests should be marked "open", "closed", etc., eMails could be flagged as read or unread.

[joshtrichards]

The metadata is provided (or not) by each app that participates in Search. As you saw, the Mail app, for example, chooses to include additional metadata. If you have specific requests for specific apps, you'll need to send those into the appropriate repositories (third-party or otherwise).

So the gitlab stuff needs to go, well, I guess you're referring to the integration_gitlab app: https://github.com/nextcloud/integration_gitlab

EDIT: If you have some specific suggestions for the Files app (sounds like you do), I suggest creating a dedicated issue that is narrowly focused solely on that as well.

[nextcloud-command]

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