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Improvement
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Resolution: Fixed
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Minor
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4.5.4, 5.0
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MOODLE_405_STABLE, MOODLE_500_STABLE
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MOODLE_501_STABLE
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HQ 2025 Sprint I2.1 Moppies
Using Manage Course Categories and Courses, I cannot search for a category by name.
Steps to reproduce the issue
In a new English Moodle LMS installation:
- Log in as a Site Administrator.
- Navigate to Site Administration > Manage Course Categories and Courses
- Set the search type dropdown to either Course Categories and Courses or Course Categories.
- The field to enter the criteria always says "Search Courses" regardless of the selected search type.
- Enter Miscellaneous in the search field (the default category when you initially install Moodle).
- Click the search icon.
- ISSUE #1: You will get a message saying "No courses were found with the words 'Miscellaneous'" even though the category exists.
- ISSUE #2: The option to select the type of search is missing from the search results page.
- Create an empty course in the Miscellaneous category called "My first course".
- Navigate to Site Administration > Manage Course Categories and Courses
- Set the search type to Course categories.
- Enter first in the search field.
- Click the search icon.
- ISSUE #3: It found the course called My first course even though we asked it to only search course categories.
These clues lead me to believe that it is always doing a course name only search, regardless of the selected search type.
This functionality is important as we have hundreds of course categories organized into a multi-level hierarchical structure.
What I expected
While it is correct that there is no course with the word Miscellaneous, it should have returned a result for the category called Miscellaneous because it was supposed to also be searching category names.
On the search results page, I should also be able to select the type of search that I want to do again.
- has been marked as being related by
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MDL-85511 On the 'Manage courses and categories' page, after performing a search, there's no clear way to return to the initial view without using the browser’s back button
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- Waiting for component lead review
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MDL-77757 Course search improvement (usability problems)
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- Open
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MDL-73462 Course and category management secondary and tertiary navigation
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- Closed
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