Global Search for tabs or files within listers

hi folks,
it would be really useful to be able to search within the current set of tabs and listers
against tab/folder/collection names
folder /collection contents
either or both

and have a lister : tile/cascade feature so that related tabs could be put beside each other within and across listers,
and collections added to to group similar files together

in fact, if the destination became a lister with a copy of the found tabs, that would be super useful

this is analagous to web sites providing google search across all their pages

given the newly-published object model,
users could do a clumsy version of this themselves,
but GPSoft could with relatively little effort,
provide a polished version that would create a huge amount of value

your thoughts ?

Cheers,
Brian

[quote]given the newly-published object model,
users could do a clumsy version of this themselves,
but GPSoft could with relatively little effort,
provide a polished version that would create a huge amount of value[/quote]

There's nothing we could do with "relatively little effort" that couldn't be done using a script and the object model.

The object model lets you ask for a search query and enumerate through the visible listers, tabs and files, which could then be filtered by a wildcard or regular expression (also part of the object model) and displayed in some form.

(A pop-up menu, with a limit on number of matches in case the search string matches thousands of items, probably makes most sense. But various options exist, pretty much the same ones we would have ourselves unless we're talking about creating a whole new virtual filesystem that lets you show windows, tabs and files mixed together in the file display, which is a long way from "relatively little effort")

If anything is missing from the object model that stops the script being written, we'd consider adding it.