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The diminutive little search box in FogBugz is one of the most powerful under-utilized features, IMHO. Plenty of people use it for full text search, e.g. widget server database specification, but there are actually many wonderful axes you can use.

It would be a lot easier to use them if they auto-completed liks this:

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In this mockup, Instead of FogBugz only showing you the recent searches you've run, it stars with a list of search axes that your text matches. Typing "proj", FogBugz shows you that the project: axis matches.

This could be a lot better than my crappy mockup. A couple of products which do this thing well are Remember the Milk's iPhone client, and YouTrack.

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 Just to throw this out there. Instead of an auto-complete on that box, I think a better approach would be to make the screen that comes up when you submit an empty search a form-based search similar to the filter screen that compiles your criteria into the necessary search text. That way you could just press the search button if you couldn't remember the syntax and you get a more user friendly version of the search interface. – JohnFx♦ Jun 30 at 23:57
Good point, that's the approach in Kiln right now – adambox♦ Jul 1 at 16:45

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I just posted a BugMonkey script that addresses this issue.

You can get it here:
Search Box Helper Widget

It isn't implemented as an auto-complete (yet), and is still very much 1.0 in terms of features and aesthetics, but it does the job. I just built it on the quick because I wanted to trash the printed copy of the search axis list cluttering up my desk. I'll probably continue to improve it over time, and welcome anyone to add any tweaks and re-publish them.

Hope you like it!

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that's awesome! very well done! – Ben McCormack♦ Jul 1 at 14:04
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We have a case open to consider this feature for a future release. Please up-vote this question (not this answer) to show your support for adding this feature.

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