structure not intuitive how to query across folders

[djay]

It would be hugely productive to use structure to be able to do adhoc searches across a whole site for example, find all unpublished files and publish them.

Not sure the best way to achieve this but one idea is this

• currently clicking the query button lets you filter only the current folder. It effectively is like a collection query with an implicit relative path criteria. We could make this relative path criteria explicit. It would be there by default but you can remove it if you want. This has the bonus of teaching people about how to use a relative path criteria.
• another option might be to have simple checkbox of "search only current folder". This checkbox could explitly add or remove the relative path query from the query builder?

[djay]

actually the current implemention does allow you to query across folders... but it's not obvious. You have to add a path/location criteria of absolute_path=/ to override the implicit path criteria.

[vangheem]

Does everything still work as expected when overriding the path like that?

If so, I think providing the explicit path to the default query would be a good, simple solution.

[djay]

So far it seems to work as expected. I was able to do publish files in many folders at once.