# Expandable advanced search UI panel
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-advanced-search-ui-panel/48440
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** feedback
**Created:** [8월 10, 2016, 7:05오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-advanced-search-ui-panel/48440 "2016-08-10T07:05:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [10월 31, 2016, 2:56오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-advanced-search-ui-panel/48440/63 "2016-10-31T02:56:24Z")
Is there a way to use advanced search without restricting search results to a particular category? “Uncategorized” category is selected by default, but there is no “All categories” item in the dropdown box, which should be the default option.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [10월 31, 2016, 2:57오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-advanced-search-ui-panel/48440/64 "2016-10-31T02:57:15Z")
Uncategorized does search all categories - I’m not sure how to search for #Uncategorized topics with advanced search at the moment. Poor choice of wording.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [10월 31, 2016, 2:59오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-advanced-search-ui-panel/48440/65 "2016-10-31T02:59:22Z")
Well that is confusing. We should support a blank option here meaning all @cpradio.
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [10월 31, 2016, 3:08오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-advanced-search-ui-panel/48440/66 "2016-10-31T03:08:36Z")
May we also add a separate translation key for “any” and not reuse another existing key?
For instance, I’d translate it differently in various contexts. Advanced Search is another context and is not an exception.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [10월 31, 2016, 5:54오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-advanced-search-ui-panel/48440/67 "2016-10-31T05:54:42Z")
I think translating “blank” (no text) Is zero effort for all human languages and makes more sense. But re-using an existing translation is OK if that is easier.
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [10월 31, 2016, 6:10오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-advanced-search-ui-panel/48440/68 "2016-10-31T06:10:06Z")
May you explain what you mean re “blank”?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [10월 31, 2016, 10:20오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-advanced-search-ui-panel/48440/69 "2016-10-31T10:20:04Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Well that is confusing. We should support a blank option here meaning all @cpradio.
This can’t be easily done using the category-chooser component
From prior convo with @tgxworld
> [@tgxworld](#):
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> The default for “In Category” is “uncategorized” but it doesn’t actually search for “uncategorized” categories but all categories.
> Yeah, the category-chooser defaults to that… ☹ Has for ages, there are multiple topics about it here on Meta
In short, when Uncategorized is enabled, it takes over the “blank” spot on the category-chooser. Because Uncategorized, isn’t a “true” category. So the only way to fix this, is to go back to category-selector and have people type in the category name.
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [10월 31, 2016, 11:26오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-advanced-search-ui-panel/48440/70 "2016-10-31T11:26:41Z")
There is an “All” option in a similar dropdown box in the menu:
However, it does not contain “Uncategorized” category. Still, if I click on it from the home page, it is then shown as a selected option in the menu. A bit confusing.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [10월 31, 2016, 12:19오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-advanced-search-ui-panel/48440/71 "2016-10-31T12:19:10Z")
Probably fine, I am not seeing the big distinction between “you gotta type” and “drop down list”.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [10월 31, 2016, 3:13오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-advanced-search-ui-panel/48440/72 "2016-10-31T15:13:50Z")
K, I’ll work on switching it back. That shouldn’t take too long, but I’m not sure when this week I’ll get to it.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [10월 31, 2016, 9:32오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-advanced-search-ui-panel/48440/73 "2016-10-31T21:32:29Z")
And I got to it tonight (and man, it was more changes than I remembered)
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4527](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4527)
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [10월 31, 2016, 9:43오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-advanced-search-ui-panel/48440/74 "2016-10-31T21:43:57Z")
Oh, I should also mention moving back to category-selector solves another issue, Anonymous can now search by category (so long as the category is public).
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [11월 19, 2016, 8:54오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-advanced-search-ui-panel/48440/75 "2016-11-19T20:54:01Z")
One thing that was brought up today is that **plugins may need to add search options here** – for example the solved plugin allows you to search for topics where a post was marked as the solution.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [12월 20, 2016, 1:02오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expandable-advanced-search-ui-panel/48440/76 "2016-12-20T01:02:08Z")
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