Cross-category search?

[rakuzen25]

Problem Description

This is probably a follow-up of #222 and #242 - once file shortcuts are properly implemented, would it be possible to search for pages in different categories/folders?

Feature

I was a MediaWiki user and really liked the "incategory" filter provided in CirrusSearch. I understand that searching in Google Drive is drastically different, but what I'm hoping to achieve is something similar to infolder:"Movies for children" infolder:"Movies for adults", and it would show me the pages that are present in both "Movies for children" and "Movies for adults" (i.e. the page "Foo" in this case).

.
├── Movies for children/
│   ├── Foo
│   └── Bar
└── Movies for adults/
    ├── Foo (shortcut)
    └── Foobar

Additional Information

I acknowledge that there might be folders with the same name. For example:

.
├── Children/
│   └── Movies/
│       ├── Foo
│       └── Bar
└── Adults/
    └── Movies/
        ├── Foo (shortcut)
        └── Foobar

In this case, perhaps the query string can be refined to infolder:"Children/Movies" infolder:"Adults/Movies" (relative to the root folder)?

[afischer]

Hey @leranjun — thanks for the issue!

I think this work can certainly be a part of/precursor to #242. Having a text-based way to scope (like your infolder suggestion) could be a good way to start building a scoped search without having to to think about UI right away.

I don't think this necessarily requires #222 to be done, but would be a nice addition.

[rakuzen25]

Having a text-based way to scope (like your infolder suggestion) could be a good way to start building a scoped search without having to to think about UI right away.

I totally agree! In fact, although both Google Drive and Gmail have a graphical interface for filtering files/emails, ultimately it still generates a text-based query (e.g. owner:me type:shortcut in Drive). Perhaps instead of filtering the search result on the fly with JS, the filter can just be part of the query?