In the past, Assembla search did not work very well. It did not match the search query to the type of searching that people were doing for a specific, recent item. When you’re using Assembla Search the odds are you are looking for a specific document, ticket, wiki or merge request and not for a wide range of information on a certain topic. Hence, how you query and what results are relevant differ from one case to the other.
To fix this issue, we introduced a series of changes that will hopefully make your life easier when using Assembla Search. Instead of having exact and non exact match mixed in the same list of results, now you can switch between one or the other. Just type your query with quotes to look for the exact match or use the “exact match” checkbox.
We’ve also changed default sort criteria to be by date so that more recent results appear on the top of the result list (don’t worry you can still choose by relevance if you need to). To make the UI cleaner, we’ve unified some result categories. Merge requests and Commit comments will now appear under the same tag “Merge requests”. As well, Tickets and Ticket comments results will appear under the tag “Tickets”.
We hope that with these changes you will use search more. I am using it a LOT more. If you have any suggestions or feedback, you can post a comment here.
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