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Jorgemenas on 01 Sep 2017 21:16:01

It is very simple a search box in the query editor. In our case, we have more than 30 data sources and we need to find them easily. A search box on the top of the queries will be great.

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:41:28

RE: Search box in query editor for queries.

A large number of queries often makes it tedious to find a specific table.
A simple search engine on names would be a great help.

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:41:20

RE: Search box in query editor for queries.

Hi,It would be great if you'll add an option to search for a specific query, by typing its name in a search box.Thanks,Gal

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:41:20

RE: Search box in query editor for queries.

Would it be possible to add a search bar to the Power Query Queries pane?

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:41:20

RE: Search box in query editor for queries.

In larger models, having 50-100 queries is not uncommon. However, even with query groups, finding a particular query/function quickly is not always easy. A filter box, similar to the field search in report view, would make query editing much easier.

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:41:19

RE: Search box in query editor for queries.

The ability to search and find a table or a field in the modeling area is great and very helpful when having lots of tables and fields.
It would be super great to have some kind of search in the power query area (right near to the Queries list.

for example :
* simple textual search for just a table/function/parameter from the long list.
* advanced search will enable a search by field name and will show only the queries how has the searched field in any of its steps.
would be a huge time saving when dealing with models with many stagings/tables/functions/parameters.

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Oli A on 15 Dec 2021 12:47:50

RE: Search box in query editor for queries.

This is a necessary QOL feature. Also needs to be added to the query dependency view too.

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Green Mountain on 02 Apr 2021 05:39:14

RE: Search box in query editor for queries.

Like Jessica Williams said: please throw in this search across queries a replace function to mass update sources, or field names.

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Alberto De Rossi on 05 Jul 2020 23:58:49

RE: Search box in query editor for queries.

Just what I realice in a very complex Project with multiple queryes

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Jessica Williams on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:16

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Agreed on query search box for repeated query steps! For example- if I have multiple queries that had removed "Bay" from my city column, but I need to edit those queries to only transform "San Francisco Bay Area" to be "San Francisco", it would be so handy to be able to replace all of those queries simultaneously like in Excel's "find and replace" function

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Dan Zrust on 05 Jul 2020 23:18:17

RE: Search box in query editor for queries.

Same here.

90 queries in one file. Hard to find anything now...

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