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phil_fdb
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7 years ago
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Chooser search doesn't appear to support full text search of content

I implemented the dropbox chooser in a web app.    Within the chooser, I'm logged in as myself.     When searching, it searches file names but not file contents.      If I go directly to dropbox.com ...
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    Greg-DB
    7 years ago

    That's correct, the search in the Dropbox Chooser doesn't do full text search, and there isn't an option to enable that, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. 

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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

That's correct, the search in the Dropbox Chooser doesn't do full text search, and there isn't an option to enable that, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. 

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phil_fdb
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

Thanks for the quick response.   Yes, please pass it along as a feature request.

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