diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index a114bded..0437fe3d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ Changelog
 5.2 (unreleased)
 ----------------
 
+- Add new method ``searchAll`` to perform a search for all documents.
+
+- Document ``getAllBrains`` and ``searchAll`` in the interface.
+
+- Update `catalogView.dtml` to changed behavior of empty searches
+  (`#102 <https://github.com/zopefoundation/Products.ZCatalog/issues/102>`_).
+
 - Fix case where index value is changed to None after previously being indexed.
   (`#100 <https://github.com/zopefoundation/Products.ZCatalog/issues/100>`_)
 
diff --git a/src/Products/ZCatalog/ZCatalog.py b/src/Products/ZCatalog/ZCatalog.py
index e8acc4e5..06b83959 100644
--- a/src/Products/ZCatalog/ZCatalog.py
+++ b/src/Products/ZCatalog/ZCatalog.py
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 from zExceptions import BadRequest
 from ZODB.POSException import ConflictError
 from zope.interface import implementer
+from ZTUtils.Lazy import LazyMap
 
 from Products.ZCatalog.Catalog import Catalog, CatalogError
 from Products.ZCatalog.interfaces import IZCatalog
@@ -566,6 +567,13 @@ def getAllBrains(self):
         for rid in self._catalog.data:
             yield self._catalog[rid]
 
+    @security.protected(search_zcatalog)
+    def searchAll(self):
+        # the result of a search for all documents
+        return LazyMap(self._catalog.__getitem__,
+                       self._catalog.data.keys(),
+                       len(self))
+
     @security.protected(search_zcatalog)
     def schema(self):
         return self._catalog.schema.keys()
diff --git a/src/Products/ZCatalog/dtml/catalogView.dtml b/src/Products/ZCatalog/dtml/catalogView.dtml
index c4d8ccec..45c38b36 100644
--- a/src/Products/ZCatalog/dtml/catalogView.dtml
+++ b/src/Products/ZCatalog/dtml/catalogView.dtml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 
 <main class="container-fluid">
 
-    <dtml-let filterpath="REQUEST.get('filterpath', '/')"
-              results="searchResults(path=filterpath)">
+    <dtml-let filterpath="REQUEST.get('filterpath', '')"
+              results="searchResults(path=filterpath) if filterpath else searchAll()">
 <dtml-if results>
 
 <h1 class="form-label section-bar">Path filter</h1>
diff --git a/src/Products/ZCatalog/interfaces.py b/src/Products/ZCatalog/interfaces.py
index c4f72efb..d10022ab 100644
--- a/src/Products/ZCatalog/interfaces.py
+++ b/src/Products/ZCatalog/interfaces.py
@@ -222,6 +222,12 @@ def search(query, sort_index=None, reverse=0, limit=None, merge=1):
         queries (even across catalogs) and merge and sort the combined results.
         """
 
+    def searchAll():
+        """the result of a search for all documents as a sequence."""
+
+    def getAllBrains():
+        """the result of a search for all documents as an iterator."""
+
     def refreshCatalog(clear=0, pghandler=None):
         """Reindex every object we can find, removing the unreachable
         ones from the index.
diff --git a/src/Products/ZCatalog/tests/test_zcatalog.py b/src/Products/ZCatalog/tests/test_zcatalog.py
index 04a50672..dee5678b 100644
--- a/src/Products/ZCatalog/tests/test_zcatalog.py
+++ b/src/Products/ZCatalog/tests/test_zcatalog.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 from Acquisition import Implicit
 import ExtensionClass
 from OFS.Folder import Folder as OFS_Folder
+from Testing.makerequest import makerequest
 
 
 class Folder(OFS_Folder):
@@ -275,6 +276,12 @@ def testGetAllBrains(self):
             self.assertTrue(hasattr(brain, 'title'))
         self.assertEqual(len(brains), len(self._catalog))
 
+    def testSearchAll(self):
+        all = self._catalog.searchAll()
+        for b in all:
+            self.assertTrue(hasattr(b, 'title'))
+        self.assertEqual(len(all), len(self._catalog))
+
     # schema
     # indexes
     # index_objects
@@ -307,6 +314,16 @@ def testSearchNot(self):
     # manage_setProgress
     # _getProgressThreshold
 
+    def test_catalogView(self):
+        catalog = makerequest(self._catalog)
+        # hack `getPhysicalPath` to avoid problem with the catalog plan
+        catalog.getPhysicalPath = None
+        # provide `ZopeVersion`
+        catalog.ZopeVersion = lambda *arg, **kw: 4
+        vr = catalog.manage_catalogView()
+        self.assertTrue("There are no objects in the Catalog." not in vr,
+                        "catalogView wrongly reports `no objects`")
+
 
 class TestAddDelColumnIndex(ZCatalogBase, unittest.TestCase):