The "Find Element" dialog box has never been intended to be extensively used. Therefore we do not plan to improve its usability in the near future.
If you use the "Find Element" dialog box very often, this is almost certainly because you often do the same repetitive tasks. In such case, please consider writing (or recording then saving) macros instead. Philippe Nobili wrote: > > Here are 2 suggestions for improving the attribute search feature; > suggestion 1 has -- in our view -- a greater priority and is certainly > more straightforward to achieve. Thanks for your excellent product. > > Best regards, > Philippe. > > > Description: > > improve the usability of the attribute search dialog box and make it's > behavior consistent with that of the text search and replace panel. > > Rationale: > > Once an (element,attribute) combination search has been launched > (current options are pretty fine), the dialog box disappears obliging > the author to re-open it to do the next search. Ctrl-A does it, but only > providing that you did nothing else meanwhile (which is rarely the case). > > Suggestion 1: > > Use a similar implementation as for the text search & replace panel: > e.g. in the top-right tool bar add a tab button giving access to the > attribute search panel as a docked panel. Allow to search the document > upward and downward. > > Adding a keyboard shortcut (counterpart to Ctrl+G for text search) to > redo the last search would be useful too, but this can be done right now > I guess ? > > Suggestion 2: > > As for the text search & replace, add a replace option in the attribute > search panel with the same options as for text replacement: Replace, > Replace All, Skip. Ideally, there are two things you could need to > search & replace: > > a. Replace an attribute's value by another one in whatever element has > been searched. > b. Replace an element by another one, providing that it is valid in the > same context. This one would be very useful indeed as we quite often > have to do this. > . >
