Idea Delivered Partially

As mentioned in the comments this is already possible although functionality is a bit hidden currently and could be improved in future. 

Allow users to search for multiple components.

As a user of Tridion, I would like the ability to search for multiple components at one time. 

For example when I have to update 15 components from different folders, I want to pull up the list of all 15 so I can view them at the same time.  Currently I have to perform 15 individual searches to find each component.   

Multiple search items would be separated by a comma (or semi-colon).

194112,194693,196032,196033,196034,196038,196215,196254,213518,2732,3056,3540,3554

Result set would return list of components that included the value(s) in the search list

Jennifer McClure
  • in reply to Jennifer McClure

    Tridion Sites 9.6 also adds the ability to export list info in CSV format in Experience Space. It seems your list might be for research or troubleshooting.

  • in reply to Neil Gibbons

    Thank you.  I was unaware of that funtionality.

  • This is already possible, to some degree, as you can specify fields in a query, so in your case, you could specify a string like:

    Title:194112 || Title:194693 || Title:196032 || Title:196033 || Title:196034 || Title:196038 || Title:196215 || Title:196254 || Title:213518 || Title:2732 || Title:3056 || Title:3540 || Title:3554

    The "||" in this case is "OR" so you're asking for a match where a Title field contains any one of these values.

    The same can be used for component Ids (using the "-" here to provide a more specific match):

    Id:*-279 || Id:*-277 || Id:*-295

    The fields available to query on can be found by accessing your SOLR admin (usually on your CM server http://localhost:8983), choose the "tridion" core and click schema.

    This works via both Core Service and the GUI, including sub folder searching from a parent. Perhaps a little verbose to have to write this string with the field name - but this could be encapsulated into a custom page or GUI extension if you wanted something more user friendly!

    See https://solr.apache.org/guide/6_6/the-standard-query-parser.html for more into on the Standard Query parser and syntax.

    NB - if the CM search is ever changed from SOLR none of this may apply, obviously!