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Appreciate the interest in being able to search by description. While we're attentive to your feedback, I want to be open that we don't have any immediate plans for developing this atm.
We're staying close to feedback on how we can improve navigation for our customers when using Xero, and I'll let you know if there is any development planned surrounding this, here. Thanks
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Robert Laird
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Not being able to search items like bills and orders by a keyword is such a remarkable oversight that I am almost too embarrassed to be writing this :-)
The means of using a transaction report as a workaround is so convoluted that it just annoys me - and probably anyone else who wants to do a QUICK word search.
Also, I assume that neither the report nor any proposed "search" will look at the contents of an attached document? Can I strongly suggest that this feature is just as important to we users who "pine" for a complete word search?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Robert Laird
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"Xero's inbuilt calculator" is very useful, but could always be improved.
An error occurred while saving the comment Robert Laird
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You should check this out under "Xero's inbuilt calculator" (see link below). IMHO this is better and faster than a "pop up" once you learn how to use it. See these examples (there is also a bunch of useful date shortcuts).
Add + 495.12+56.89
Subtract - 112.33-16
Multiply * 49.95*1.15
Divide / 560/.33
Group ( ) (25.95*.75)+10https://central.xero.com/s/article/Tips-and-shortcuts#Xerosinbuiltcalculator
My 30 years in the software business tells me that this is all about the cost of indexing services infrastructure. I have been through this myself a few times with other companies, and I guess that Xero has such a huge volume of small transactions they just can't slap something together...very understandable.
However, I was involved with implementing an application word search engine for a SaaS based commercial application. Worked a treat and was fast, reliable and cost effective, and this was a rather heavy duty document, text and database search use case. So the options are out there - let's do it Xero!