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Is there a way to search through the session list? So that you for instance can search for a topic or subject and all sessions containing the given word/phrase in their name appear (and the others are "filtered" away) ?
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Hello, MedBooster

Currently, no, you would need to open the session, and then initiate a search in all open documents.

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When I say search through sessions, I mean searching through the names of the sessions, because I do keep a hierarchical naming system. Thus it would be more easier to see only the sessions of the topic you are looking for.

So, to reiterate – searching through the name of the sessions, NOT the content within them

Consider it a suggestion for a useful feature in that case.
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So not really searching only the files from a particular session, only a filter to remove results that are not part of a session?

I'm not sure if it will happen, it will ultimately be at the discretion of the development team leader, but the comment/request is noted.

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Let's say you have a system where you have P01 for various seminars for one topic

You do
P01 Cardio
P02 Cardio
P03 Cardio

Let's say you have a lot of other sessions saved for other subjects,
so you would want a search tool to search for "cardio", just to get the sessions you are interested in up, so that you don't have to look through hundreds of other sessions to find what you need.

That would be really useful
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Hello, MedBooster

Thank you for the example, we will review all of this when the Dev team is next looking at the feature, hopefully some implementation an come in a future release.

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Still sorely waiting for this!

BUT, I must say thank you for fixing the radio

buttons in the session window which I did report was an issue previously... '

Small question;
is there a limit to the amount of sessions you can save? (I could probably reach hundreds if not thousands of them, and I would like to make sure that the older ones don't get overwritten or something)
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Hello MedBooster,

Are you saving your sessions to file or internally in the Editor?
I am not aware of any specific limit for the sessions stored inside the Editor, but e.g. for History items there is a (by default) 5000 items limit.
If you want to be sure your sessions will be preserved - you can save them to files, so that you can have backups.

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Thank you for your quick response.

What are you referring to when saying history items? As in copied items?
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Hello MedBooster,

When you start the Editor - next to "File" at the top right corner you have a yellow folder icon. The triangle next to this opens the recent files list:
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At the bottom of that recents list is a "History..." button - which opens a separate list with up to 5000 (changeable in settings) list of files you've opened in the past and my list is 'only' 2885 items long:
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Hello,

Adding this for the record, a ticket was created on this topic just today:

RT#6244: FR: Search sessions by sessionname and filename

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Hi Daniel.

I would like to add to this ticket a previous Feature Request:

'Manage Sessions' Window: Ordering list of Sessions
viewtopic.php?p=139253#p139253

as it is also looking for improvements in Sessions Management, namely sorting them by data column header.

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Hello, useroftracker

Thank you for bringing that up, but it is a separate request, while I could combine them that would have the opposite effect. Requiring that neither be released until both are complete, while leaving them separate as they are means that even if one takes a few years to be implemented, the other could be done and presented in just a few months.

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Any news on searching / filtering for session names? This would really save me a lot of time...
Although your suggestion to look in the history was nice, I'm using sessions to get a particular combination of documents, which "history" doesn't really help with.

Did you figure out if there's a limit for the quantity of sessions stored? You said it was 5000 for history elements
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Hello MedBooster,

Nothing new in this ticket that I can share either.
Asked for an update just as for the other one.

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any updates for the others? like maximum amount of sessions you can store?

Or news regarding a search bar?
in my opinion a search bar would be more important than the associated request you attached it to.
a search bar is to not have to scroll through hundreds of sessions to find the right one... as long as you name your sessions right it could save you a lot of time
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Hello MedBooster,

The request for updates on the progress of the above ticket has been passed on to the devs - but there is still no news that I can share with you here in the forums on it.

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Tracker Supp-Stefan wrote: Tue Jan 03, 2023 2:52 pm Hello MedBooster,

The request for updates on the progress of the above ticket has been passed on to the devs - but there is still no news that I can share with you here in the forums on it.

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