Content picker search is broken

[StudioBravo]

Which Umbraco version are you using? (Please write the exact version, example: 10.1.0)

14.3.1

Bug summary

The content picker search functionality seems to be searching across all content across the site rather than the restricted content for the picker.

Specifics

No response

Steps to reproduce

• Setup a document type that contains a field with a content picker
• Restrict the content picker only to select certain document types and also specify a starting node
• Create a page with the new document type and navigate to the content picker to add content
• The content picker selection flyout shows all available content (it correctly displays the restricted set of content to chose from)

• Start typing on the search box and it seems to find all the content cross the site that matches the text.

Expected result / actual result

The search functionality should be looking through the restricted documents rather than across the whole site.

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This item has been added to our backlog AB#45280

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[Zeegaan]

I can reproduce this, looks like when we are calling the search endpoint, we are no longer accounting for the context of the content picker 😁

[nikolajlauridsen]

I just looked at this, and this turns out to be a frontend issue.

On 13 there was a "start from" query parameter on the tree search, which would limit the search to a specific start node. This query parameter is still there for /item/document/search just called parentId now which the frontend should use but doesn't.

Similarly, on V13 the frontend did a lookup on the datatype and used the filter property to filter out the document types that aren't allowed according to the configuration, this doesn't happen either 😄