Desktop web search autocompletes items that are completed

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Pete Mauro

• January 27, 2020 17:18

I have completed items hidden but when I search for something on the web, a pulldown displays items that are completed.

 

This seems like a bug. is it unexpected behavior?

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • January 27, 2020 19:20

  Hi Pete,

  I don't see this in Chrome... What browser are you using?

  BTW... the dropdown allows one to jump to search results... not so much for auto-completing...

   

  ~ Frank 

   

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  Pete Mauro

  • February 03, 2020 06:08

  Hi Frank, I am using Chrome.

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • February 03, 2020 17:07

  Hi Pete, so just to confirm, you're talking about the new Search Helper feature that gives a list of jump-to items (similar to the Ctrl+K menu) directly below the search box... and items that are completed (and hidden) are showing up here?

  If you log out and back in again, is there any difference?

   

   

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  Pete Mauro

  • February 26, 2020 16:48

  Apologies for the delay, I lost track of this thread but still have the problem. :)

  I am referring to search in the top right. You can see that I am getting suggestions for things are associated with completed items. This also impacts my "#" and "@" autocomplete when adding text below.

  I logged out and logged back in and the problem persisted.

  

   

  

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • February 26, 2020 17:41

  Hi Pete,

  This is expected (and programmed) behavior!

  Tags will still show in the tag autocomplete helpers even if items that have all such tags are completed and hidden.

   

  ~ Frank

   

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  Pete Mauro

  • February 27, 2020 02:58

  Hmm... Well it is suggesting tags that I used a couple of time 6 years ago and it's totally cluttering up the UI :/

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • February 27, 2020 19:16

  Understood!  Do you think you may be able to easily delete tags you've only used a couple of times?

  What might help is this find-and-replace tool if you have many tags to eliminate:

  https://blog.workflowy.com/2018/09/13/find-and-replace/

   

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  Pete Mauro

  • February 27, 2020 19:28

  That's a fantastic solution for me, thanks!!

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • February 27, 2020 20:00

  I think you may have figured out already that if you want to batch delete a certain tag... you just replace it with nothing :-)

   

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