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Find feature only searches for full words #5620

Open nus-se-bot opened 2 years ago

nus-se-bot commented 2 years ago

The find feature only matches full words, and this is very unintuitive compared to the normal find feature in search operations that typical users would be accustomed to. For person finding, this may not be that big of an issue. However, this is a feature flaw for task-finding, since not everyone will be able to remember the full words involved in tasks. For instance, someone could search '2103' instead of 'cs2103', and think that there are no 'cs2103' task assignments since the find feature will not return anything, as shown below.

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Perhaps the input validation could be reworked to be less restrictive for task-finding.

[original: nus-cs2103-AY2122S1/pe-interim#5608] [original labels: type.FeatureFlaw severity.Medium]

mingyi456 commented 2 years ago

Team's Response

We think this is not a current priority for v1.4, even though it would be good to implement partial matching in future. Remembering one of the exact words within a task name or description field should not be that difficult, so we kept this implementation for now.

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