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1. FIX the SEARCH to search exact terms and support advanced search parameters

   There are several major issues here, search should be powerful in order to make the tool as useful as possible. It is to the point now that we are storing so much information on Box that not having a search tool that actually works is causing us serious headache and loss of productivity.

   1. Search returns results for all forms of a word, how is it helpful to be absolutely unable to narrow a search. For example, if I search for "Government" (yes, even when using quotes) I get results including government, governance, govern, etc. Thanks Box, you have now included nearly every file in our file structure and there is no way for me to filter it down to what I actually want which is files with the word "government".

   2. There is no way to search for files containing multiple specific words. For instance if I want to search for a file with multiple words for example "license" AND "July" I end up getting a list of files which contain one or more of the words with all of the variations (licensees instead of license) but none of the files contain both words.

   Search should be a basic function of a platform like Box, it should actually work.

   There are several major issues here, search should be powerful in order to make the tool as useful as possible. It is to the point now that we are storing so much information on Box that not having a search tool that actually works is causing us serious headache and loss of productivity.

   1. Search returns results for all forms of a word, how is it helpful to be absolutely unable to narrow a search. For example, if I search for "Government" (yes, even when using quotes) I get results including government, governance, govern, etc. Thanks Box, you have now included… more

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2. Metadata key values of type {number, date} only searchable by range (gt, lt) and not equality

   Assume I have a metadata template "Template" with a key - value of type Number. In both the web app and API, it is not possible to do an equality search:

   templateKey = template
   filters = {"value": 2}

   Instead, the search requires specifying both lower and upper bounds. If you're searching for a single value, you then have to approximate it with a gt = 2, lt = 2 combo.

   a) Most importantly, the API documentation implies that the range parameters are not required when searching by number or date.

   b) I think both the webapp UI and the API should allow equality searching for number and date; i.e., ID = 2815

   Assume I have a metadata template "Template" with a key - value of type Number. In both the web app and API, it is not possible to do an equality search:

   templateKey = template
   filters = {"value": 2}

   Instead, the search requires specifying both lower and upper bounds. If you're searching for a single value, you then have to approximate it with a gt = 2, lt = 2 combo.

   a) Most importantly, the API documentation implies that the range parameters are not required when searching by number or date.

   b) I think both the webapp UI and the API… more

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