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Thank you for your help. I got it working using

\/START_OF_FILENAME.[^\/]+$

This will match only the start of the file name in a path. I feel like it could be cleaner, and truth be told I am still not 100% I know how it works. I had to add the period after the search text to exclude folders, but I don't think that should have worked... ehh I got it working and that is what matters in the end really.
Thank you for your help

 

When doing a search through the API, is it possible to limit to only search a single provider in increase performance (in this case the Project/assets)? It looks like I can, but I couldn't figure out how to get just the project provider.

 

So the asset index starts updating every time I run a PlayMode Unit test through the test runner.

If I were to guess why this happens, it's probably because those tests are implemented (by Unity!) by creating a temporary scene asset in the Assets folder, loading that scene, and then entering play mode. Or entering play mode and loading that scene, I can't quite remember.

This is annoying for several reasons:
- It's unnecessary work that might slow down other things.
- It shows a load bar for the unnecessary work.
- It takes a very long time (like a minute? Other changes doesn't cause that kind of issue at all).
- Quick Search itself gets very slow when I try to open it after the test (probably because it's in the middle of indexing or something?

I'm not sure if this is a bug on your side or on the test runners side or simply an integration bug, but it gets pretty jarring. The ideal solution would be either if QS knew about those scenes and ignored them when they showed up or got deleted, or if the Test Runner told QS to stop indexing when the scene exists.


I mean the ideal solution would be if we could tell Test Runner to not make those scenes but instead load a specific scene for the test because that's always what we do anyway, but I don't think there's been any substantial work done to the Test Runner for like a couple of years, so I doubt it would happen?

 

Hey! was recommended to post my issue here. Feel free to delete it if it's irrelevant to this post.

I'm in a jam with our project's asset index and since I can't find any solutions or even anyone else who has this issue I think trying here might at least get me somewhere.

As mentioned it's about our project's asset index, it often updates without getting anywhere and it takes a toll on the editor's performance and our development speed in general as we cant search or use plugins that need the asset index.

Whenever Unity starts updating our asset index I can see it says "resolving artifacts x amount usually very high" but it never gains any progress or finishes no matter how long I leave it for. I also noticed that in the search index manager it says size 37b, 0 elements. I have no idea as to why this is a thing or how to debug or fix it but it would mean a great deal to us if this could be fixed.

I have tried:
- forcing an index rebuild
- making another index
- limiting the index to very a few folders
- deleting my library and rebuilding it.
- restarting unity makes the indexing stop but still no elements

I hope you can help Kind Regards: Mikkel.

 

So, I did more testing and it seems that using the regex required is just too expensive for my use-case. I tried the CustomObjectIndexer, and it works (but not in my 2020.3 project), however it only works when matching the start of the name and doesn't support regex.

For my asset which uses the search API it is not uncommon to have 4+ name 'contains' queries in a single search, so I would like to provide a more performant solution. Do you have any suggestions on a way to implement a fast 'name contains' lookup?

 

Yes that is partly what I want. I want to also be able to find assets whose names contain certain things.
Given your example, I want to do something like

p: name:"or"

to get all assets whose name contains

or

, like

door22

,

floor66

, and

door99

.
But I also want to do

p: name:door or name:floor

to get assets whose name starts with specified text.
And lastly (or maybe it goes with wanting 'contains') I want to do to do regex, only on the assets name.

Not sure if this helps, but I have this custom editor for creating searches. Each item in the list is a search entry, so it would create something like this. (It is more complex than this because I am using regex currently, but it illustrates it well enough I think)

p: name:"tree" or name:"plant" or name:"flower"

 

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Well, they're created directly in Assets/. The name is InitTestScene + some guid (ie. InitTestScene637774892811600426.unity).

I tried adding a regex to the exclude filter to catch it, but it doesn't seem like that's supported. I have this in there:


But the InitTestScene is still triggering the indexer.

Thanks!

 

Hey yeah we would love to have this solved, I believe we are using the newest version " Version 3.0.0-preview.22 - November 04, 2021 " our unity version is: 2020.3.4f1 URP.

Kind Regards: Mikkel

 

Adding InitTestScene to the exclude filter helped, so it's not very urgent for me! Thanks for that tip.

 

Did my example help make it clearer what I want? I guess another way to ask the question would be is there a way to use regex on a custom object indexer?

 

Hi, I just discovered QuickSearch, and it looks pretty promising. I wonder, is it possible to easily only search for enabled/active gameobjects within the hierarchy? Something like h: bookshelf and p(isactive)=true

 

Aw, that is too bad. Yeah that is something that would be very important feature for me as it would allow me to provide much better performance to my customers. Is there somewhere I should 'submit' it as feature request that would increase the chance of it getting added sooner (like we do with bugs)?

 

Yes nice writeup!, Quick search is part of my everyday unity workflow, thanks for the great work!

 

Sorry if this has been brought up already, but is there a way I can find all objects that have missing references?
I'd like the search to process all scenes, assets, prefabs etc.

 

Oh yeah, forgot about the dependency viewer. Thanks

 

Hi,
When i type:
t: prefab l:SciFi l:Building
Every prefab with a SciFi OR a Building label will show up in the search results, is there a way to have an "AND" so that only prefabs with both label show up?

 

How is one supposed to install this?

com.unity.quicksearch results in

 

Can you please update your post about how to install this?

 

In case you are still wondering, in 2020 it is in the package manager by default. However there is a more updated version that is in preview, so you will need to enable preview packages to see the 3.0 version. In 2021.1 and newer, it is just built-in the editor and there is no need to add it at al.

 

That first post should be updated

 

I' am getting all prefabs with the "building" label plus all prefabs with the "scifi" label.

I was asking if there was a way to ONLY show prefabs which have both labels.(Not one or the other)

 

Okay, I'm running into problems. Quick Search is getting slower and slower, and I can't quite tell why.

What seems to happen is this, but I'm speculating:
- I have made a change to some prefab, scene, or whatever. I hit ctrl+s to save.
- "Updating asset search index" starts spinning. For a long time - even if I have just saved a single scene, it gets stuck at 99% for everything from 2 to 10 seconds on merging changed:

- I open Quick search and start typing. It's initially responsive
- Suddenly, Quick search and Unity hangs for quite a bit:

- Quick search comes alive again.

What I suspect is that the hang is due to the search index being finished updating in the background, and then something happens that breaks everything.

Any idea what's going on here? Here's a deep profiling result of doing the same (when it hangs in the last screenshot), and since it's deep profiling things are taking way longer than usual, but:

 

Unity 2020.3.26f1, Quick Search is: "com.unity.quicksearch": "3.0.0-preview.22",

 

Looking forward to the patch!

What I've got is this:


So no sub-objects. I don't know if the object or asset count is bad, doesn't seem like it should be? Though it is surprising that the number of elements in Assets to the left is more than 3 times the number of assets and objects?

 

Is there a way to always search with "Show Packages results" on? It seems to reset every time I do a search and I don't see any options in the Preferences. Using Unity 2021.2.11.

 

I'm having this same issue. Quick Search is dragging my Unity down. Then if I try to open the Index Manager while its stuck on "Merging Index" it freezes up Unity.

I'm on 2021.2.12.f1 and using HDRP.

 

Search isn't returning all results (using search in 2021.2.14). It was suggested I bug it and report it in this thread.

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Top image is quick search
Bottom image is asset search

The project i encountered it in is huge but i can see if i can reproduce it in a leaner form

 

Oh! Interesting. That explains why it was only some things not showing up. I didn't know about those exclusions so I'm glad you found it

 

I mean you're making a very big assumption on behalf of the users when you're picking some folders and saying "yup, they probably don't want folders with these names indexed". Afaik, neither Temp nor External are special folder names in any other contexts than this, so honestly I think it's just a bad call to have anything there by default.

It's also surprising that the names are patterns rather than just folders. Having access to patterns is very useful, but when we have a button that allows us to select a folder, having that name be interpreted as a pattern is in no way intuitive. There's nothing else in the UI to indicate that the name is a pattern.

What I would prefer would be to have four options for excludes; files, folders, extensions, and regex. The other ones would be exact matches, while regex would be all the pattern goodness I might want. Then there's no ambiguity about what's what.

 

@jonathans42 So I have run in to another issue. QuickSearch has all of a sudden stopped completing searches, so they run infinitely. I have reported the issue with case number 1417609.
It currently is only doing it on one project for me, but another user has also reported running in to the issue (Link to other user running in to it). I was unable to repro it on a fresh project unfortunately, so I am not sure how possible it will be to track it down. Let me know if there is any additional info or files you need.

There are a number of times when QS doesn't seem to update the index and requires being rebuilt. When this happens should the issue be reported, and if so is there anything specific that should be included?