Display search on page when enter is pressed

101 votes

I just went from v3 to v4 and like it a lot, but miss that a search results is seen on the page instead of just a drop down. Pressing enter does nothing, it would be great that when it's pressed that the results would then be displayed on the page.

Done Suggested by: Ben (04 Aug, '20) • Upvoted: 11 Jan, '21 • Comments: 14

Comments: 14

06 Aug, '20
Matt
Addendum to this, when searching, and enter is pressed, keep the new style posters in table, however divide the results page to indicate TV Series / Movie / Music, rather than a combined mishmash of results.
10 Oct, '20
Nick
I Second this. Search results being shown on a page when enter is pressed would make it much easier. Plus for example when searching "24" it would be nice to see all TV shows and movies with 24 so i can find all of the ones i want. similar for others.
21 Oct, '20
Dwiz
Searches being shown on a page when entered would be my favorite addition. Would be so much easier to see results
26 Oct, '20
Jamie Rees Admin
"When user presses Enter after entering a search request - populate the fields below with the results" (suggested by poweruser on 2020-10-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
29 Oct, '20
Paul
Also like this. Was great in v3
01 Nov, '20
Johnny A Merged
Right now when you search for a movie in the "Discover" tab it pops-up and populates a new dropdown menu. Personally I feel it would be much cleaner if instead it just updated the existing tiles and got rid of the drop down menu completely. I'd love something similar to how TVDB search works on this page: https://thetvdb.com/search

In addition to looking cleaner it would be more functional. Right now if I search "Sleepaway Camp" I have to click through each title in the search dropdown to get to the "Request" button. If the tiles updated, in list view at least, I could simply hit the "Request" button for all the titles I wanted to add. (I'll make a separate suggestion to add a "Request" button when in tile view :P)

Also overall I'm loving v4! It's a bit unpolished but after using it for a few days I think it has so much potential and appreciate all the effort and work that you've put into this project
02 Nov, '20
Johnny A
Whoops I just made a very similar suggestion. I agree that the new interface is awesome overall but it's kind of bummer that search results are only shown in a drop down. I'd love an option to remove the drop down completely and only have results populate on the main page if possible (with no need to hit enter to populate)
02 Nov, '20
Adam Merged
When searching, display found posters instead of in a dropdown - when the users presses 'Enter'

This helps out the user to select what movie they are after in the poster view instead of scrolling through the dropdown menu of found movies / tv shows
09 Nov, '20
Luna
I'd love to see this change made as well, the little drop down list is really annoying when searching for something obscure or especially something really generic.
12 Nov, '20
Kristopher
Strongly need this. Mobile users have a very hard time trying to scroll through that tiny results box.
13 Nov, '20
Jamie Rees Admin
"When searching, display found posters instead of in a dropdown" (suggested by Adam on 2020-11-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
13 Nov, '20
Jamie Rees Admin
"Populate/update movie tiles upon entering search text" (suggested by Johnny A on 2020-11-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
13 Nov, '20
Jamie Rees Admin
Moved status to Planned
09 Jan, '21
Jamie Rees Admin
This has been done. Check it out in the latest v4 version.