So we’ve been using the Pathfinder Nexus in our campaign, love the platform so far, however we noticed that searching on character sheets behaves a bit odd. When we type names in search fields completely unrelated items still show up and we even ran in times when the thing we were looking for did not show up even though we typed in the exact name. Using filters instead of searching works better but it takes much more time to always filter everything and sometimes even that can be buggy in our experience. Were problems like this mentioned by anyone else? Are there any ways we could make searching for things easier for us when we want to add something to our characters’ sheets?
Similarly we noticed that when we type in text boxes, for example notes for an item, it is randomly deleting letters and behaves wierdly as if the page was lagging and could not keep up with typing speed. We are based in central Europe and I’m wondering if that might have something to do with it, I don’t know where servers are based though.
Another somewhat related question. Is a global source filter planned for character settings?
Thank you in advance!
Search is definitely something we’re continually working to fine tune. Sorry it’s caused you trouble but I unfortunately don’t have much I can provide in the way of suggestions that it sounds like you haven’t tried already.
As far the issue you notice with typing goes that’s caused by a concept called “debounce”. Because everything you type gets written to our database at some point you hit the limit of how quickly it can do that. When that happens you’ll see what looks like lag where you typing just kind of goes back to how it was a second or two ago. This is also something we work to fine tune so it causes the least amount of trouble for the fewest amount of people but the only true solution for it is to either type a little more slowly or type somewhere else and then paste into Demiplane.
Finally I’m not sure what you mean by a global source filter, can you elaborate on that a little bit?
Thank you for the response.
By global source filter I mean an option that would let me choose source filters that would apply on all parts of the sheet and character editor so that I don’t have to filter sources every time I open something. Or just being able to hide all locked content would be nice as well.