# Admin setting search is too fuzzy
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-search-is-too-fuzzy/276236
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [July 31, 2023, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-search-is-too-fuzzy/276236 "2023-07-31T08:09:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2023, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-search-is-too-fuzzy/276236/1 "2023-07-31T08:09:54Z")
> [@Tag Selector in Composer not Y-Scrolling](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tag-selector-in-composer-not-y-scrolling/273314/2):
>
> (Why don’t these settings appear when I search the settings for _ **tag** _ or _ **tags** _?
FWIW Those settings appear when I search for `tag` in the admin page. Did you flip to the ‘tags’ tab?
---
### Author:  [@denvergeeks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/denvergeeks)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2023, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-search-is-too-fuzzy/276236/2 "2023-07-31T14:43:36Z")
@JammyDodger I just go to Admin → Settings and type in the search field…
[ ](https://vimeo.com/850184661/da031bb9df)
---
### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-search-is-too-fuzzy/276236/3 "2023-07-31T14:55:55Z")
That’s the right way. 👍 (though, in your video it seems you’re on the ‘Required’ tab rather than ‘All’). But with something like `tag` it’ll have quite a lot of settings with it in so you may need to refine the search or go through the tabs to filter the results. On the ‘All’ tab you’d see this at the bottom:
---
### Author:  [@denvergeeks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/denvergeeks)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-search-is-too-fuzzy/276236/4 "2023-07-31T14:59:22Z")
I think I should be able to hit Admin → Settings and type in a string and not have to scroll around to find a tab (or hit All, and get a crazy amount of results). Kind of defeats the purpose of a quick search, no?
---
### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-search-is-too-fuzzy/276236/5 "2023-07-31T15:01:21Z")
How would it know which of the settings with `tag` in is the one you’re looking for?
---
### Author:  [@denvergeeks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/denvergeeks)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-search-is-too-fuzzy/276236/6 "2023-07-31T15:05:44Z")
It should do better than this (notice that the string **tags** is nowhere close to the top of the results)…
---
### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-search-is-too-fuzzy/276236/7 "2023-07-31T15:10:44Z")
We recently had a change to include fuzzy matching to help people who didn’t know the exact name of a setting:
> [@3.1.0.beta5: Customizable Community section, Improvements to Admin Notifications, Topic Merge and more](https://meta.discourse.org/t/3-1-0-beta5-customizable-community-section-improvements-to-admin-notifications-topic-merge-and-more/263867/2):
>
> Fuzzy search in site settings and raise limit to 100 matches
Perhaps there’s a case to have closer matches towards the top of the results. 🤔
Though for something like `tag`, I think your best bet is to check the `Tags` tab of the settings if you’re not looking for something you know the name of.
---
### Author:  [@denvergeeks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/denvergeeks)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-search-is-too-fuzzy/276236/8 "2023-07-31T15:46:07Z")
It’s overly fuzzy IMO (either that or it’s not fuzzy enough, not sure which it is…)
---
### Author:  [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-search-is-too-fuzzy/276236/9 "2023-08-29T15:59:07Z")
> [@denvergeeks](#):
>
> It’s overly fuzzy IMO
It totally was! Several improvements to the site settings search were made last week, so it should be better about returning more accurate results now.
See this post: [Random-seeming results from settings search - #7 by blake](https://meta.discourse.org/t/random-seeming-results-from-settings-search/276013/7)
---
### Author:  [@denvergeeks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/denvergeeks)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-search-is-too-fuzzy/276236/10 "2023-08-29T17:46:33Z")
Ahhhhhhhhh!!! Thank you!!!
---
### Author:  [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2023, 2:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-setting-search-is-too-fuzzy/276236/11 "2023-09-04T14:00:39Z")
This topic was automatically closed after 5 days. New replies are no longer allowed.