We just saw an update to the shopify admin page and now the search bars are missing from the Products AND Orders page. We currently cannot search for a product without using the gneeral search bar at the top which also searches through orders and other sections of the site. We have 60,000 items and thousands of orders. We cannot be sifting through this entire list every time someone wants to look at an item! Please advice or revert.
Thank you
Ok, after a little more searching I found them. They are hidden by default. Why in the world would you hide the search bar on an item or order list. That is literally the most important feature!
Yeah, I absolutelee agree. Our end users rely heavily on the search and this just adds another step for them. Hopefully they at least add a way to permanently enable the search box’s visibility.
AAARRGGHH!!
Yet another example of Shopify making purely cosmetic changes - that have ZERO use to the average small business owner and often actually make our lives more difficult by ADDING clicks to the things we use daily. It frustrates the hell out of me.
I’m experiencing the same level of displeasure at them hiding the search bar that I use hundreds of times a day - can you tell me where it is please?
Yikes, sorry, that was crappy to say I figured it out and not say where! All the way to the right side of where the search bar should be there’s a magnifying glass button. This un-hides the search bar.
Yeah, not sure who decided to implement that but it’s the opposite of efficient.
The search bar on the products page is by far my most used feature in the backend of my shop. Why the heck would they hide the thing?! I’m now fighting literal years of muscle memory for the stupidest change. Shopify seems determined to make so many useful features difficult or unusable.
Had the same problem this morning - My staff asking where the search bar has gone. When you refresh the page and the search bar is blank it defaults to off again - maybe there is a setting somewhere to make it permanent again.
Thanks for this thread. This is literally the stupidest change i’ve seen in the 6 years i’ve used shopify. CHANGE THIS BACK ASAP PLEASE
Can’t believe they hide the most used feature…What’s the point?
Agreed I HATE this change. Why should I have to codemonkey all these horrible decisions?"??? I USE THE SEARCH BAR every single time i go to the products!
I have 1000’s of products i HAVE to use the search bar, now i have to do ONE extra click EVERY TIME. WHAT in the world is going on over at shopify development testing env where they all thought this was a good idea?? Look, good changes can be made; faster system, more features, but odd ui changes??
sorry, I enjoy using shopify and believe it to be a great product.
They also got rid of the ability to search by “created last” or “updated last” feature which we have to use because we literally have tens of thousands of items. Thanks for nothing Shopify.
I believe you can still get those options by clicking the button with the up/down arrows to the right of the button that shows the search bar
I honestly don’t think the developers or designers at shopify ever do usability testing. Every redesign they implement requires more time, more steps, more clicks. Why aren’t they prioritizing efficiency, ease of use or functionality?
An update from Shopify that is useless and caused more problems for customers. Please bring the search bar back to default. With tens of thousands of lines, how does removing the search bar help users to find what they want?
Please bring back the search bar.
When considering implementing changes, you’d hope the developers at @Shopify_77 might think to themselves “Are these changes going to ADD CLICKS to the tasks the small business owner needs to complete?”
If the resulting answer is a YES - then IT’S NOT A USEFUL CHANGE.
Kindly revert it back to the way it was and get onto working out how to fulfill partial orders that are for pickup…
thanks @Absolutelee123 I figured it out immediately after posting.
But how frustrating! I just posted another suggestion for the @Shopify_77 developers to consider.
I have to agree with this post. The previous search bar setup was more efficient. Yet again Shopify has now added additional clicks to our process to a simple step. I placed an order with another supplier that also uses Shopify, he is also not impressed with this change. Our time is valuable and Shopify continues to use it up. Bring back the original setup for easy access and usability, the change makes no sense. Look how much time it has taken from all of us here to type out our complaints and opinions, not knowing if they will actually view this.
But the problem still exist. After the search bar reappears then if you search for an order number it does not return anything. Also if you want to see previus orders from a customer I ahve yet to figure out how to get them. If I serch in top serch bar and customer profile comes up and i click on see all orders it does not show them. Shopify please go back to the version that worked well. This one sucks.
What a horrible update. Please never remove the search bar and update it to the original search function so we can search for our customers.