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How do I change the Trello Search Box back to showing Card and Titles vs a list of just titles?

Tomas Mora

Up until today, when I used the Search Box in Trello it would deliver TWO columns, with the left side showing the cards and the right column the corresponding title of each card.

Today while using the Search Box I get just a list of every title that contains the word I am searching and no graphic of the cards.

How do I change it back to the former search format?

Thank you for your assistance.

Accepted answers

Theodoro Reato

Hi Jeff,

You're seeing the new search bar, there isn't a way to disable it,

However, you can press enter after typing the keywords you are searching, and it'll show a page with the results as the old search, but you'll move out of your board as it's a different page.

Tiffany Yue

👋 Hi @Tomas Mora @AB and @Adrian Strench , great to see the discussion here!

I'm Tiffany, the PM on Trello's Search team. As @Theodoro Reato mentioned above, what you're seeing is the incremental rollout of a new experience. We know that having a modern search experience is important to quickly finding your work, so the team been hard at work updating the look and feel. You can learn more in this support doc.

That said, we understand that change can be frustrating and there's always room for improvement. With your pain point of less card information, we're on it! We've been exploring how we could bring some of these card details, like labels and list name, back to the search results. I'll follow up with any updates.

In the meantime, please feel free to share additional feedback here in the comments or via our support team.

Best,

Tiffany

All comments

Theodoro Reato

Hi Jeff,

You're seeing the new search bar, there isn't a way to disable it,

However, you can press enter after typing the keywords you are searching, and it'll show a page with the results as the old search, but you'll move out of your board as it's a different page.

Abby Johnson_dzedhd

This new format is awful. For the next update, you guys should think about making a way to switch it back.

Why have labels if you can't see them when searching.

Adrian Strench

@Theodoro Reato I agree with Jeff. The old way was working just fine. Please change it back

Adrian Strench

@Theodoro Reato How do I do back to the old way of searching? My boss's Trello is still has the old way search view?

Abby Johnson_dzedhd

Tomas Mora

Hi Abby,

My Trello search is still only offering the "new" method. Did you do anything different to be able to access the old search format?

Thanks!

Adrian Strench

@Theodoro Reato I like the when old search showed labels to the cards and what list the search item is in. This is every important information when doing a search. The new way didn't do that.

Right now Trello search seems to working the old way. Please don't change it.

Tiffany Yue

👋 Hi @Tomas Mora @AB and @Adrian Strench , great to see the discussion here!

In the meantime, please feel free to share additional feedback here in the comments or via our support team.

Best,

Tiffany

Waseem AlSharif

im having the same issue , the old search bar was much better than the new one . There is away to switch to the old one ?

Usama Arshad_s8ugq8

First time on Trello's community forum searching for a way to revert the search results somehow like they used to be.

Old search bar results were intuitive, you could check various things at a glance, move to a new tab, and search results were still intact.

This new search results show little to no data, you loose the the search results when you move to a new tab or window to reference something.

Adrian Strench

@Theodoro Reato Is there a way to change search back to the old way?

Chip Hennen

Adrian, how did you get the search format to return to the old format? I still see the new format, which really sucks. Tx.

Chip Hennen

Tiffany, still no way to return search to previous format? I still see the new one, and it doesn't work for my company's needs. It's basically terrible. My company is paid user and all the Trello users in our company are complaining vehemently about this. Hard to understand why Atlassian won't list to their users' complaints.

It's obvious that Atlassian is trying to force people to also use their other product offerings via integrating Trello tighter with them, but they're compromising Trello's key value drivers in the process. This situation is totally ridiculous.

Timothea

Agree! New Trello search is terrible!

Please develop an option to switch it back.

Abby Johnson_dzedhd

Not only did it change formats a while ago, but the advanced search just changed for the worse. At least there I could see labels, but not any more, and the information provided is redundant.

TRELLO HAS GOTTEN AWFUL!

Abby Johnson_dzedhd

Trello search and now the advanced search is awful.

Please switch it back!!

Mandi_p2vjtf

Yes! These are our issues too. Trello, please bring back the old search!

shurrrr

Not being able to see the labels or photos through the search feature basically makes the search function useless for my team...

Maybe there is another platform..

Chip Hennen

When you find a replacement platform, pls post link to it on this board. We too are looking for a replacement because of the changes to the search function and Atlassian's refusal to give user option to return to old search. Tx

Mandi_p2vjtf

Yes, please do. We are looking for something better as well!

Abby Johnson_dzedhd

Yes, if you find something different please send a link! New Trello search is awful.

Anthony Forca

Please see my below discussion and comment and like it so we can get a petition going.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-discussions/New-Trello-Search-Feature-showing-as-a-list-now-is-HORRIBLE/m-p/2160579#M2965?utm_source=dm&utm_medium=unpaid-social&utm_campaign=P:online*O:community*I:social_share*