Same search experience for collection entries as well as for assets?

[Alpenverein]

I would love to have the same extended search options for entries as well as I have for collection entries today:
It's possible to perform a fielded search for the entries, which is very helpful. My editors asked me for the same options while searching for assets. But it seems there is only a simple fulltext available.. The search seems to search on the "Title" only, but we have build a more extendet blueprint for our images, with legal-stuff, photographer-info and so on...
It would be so nice to search for this information aswell..
Any ideas?

[duncanmcclean]

Hey!

As this is a feature request, would you be able to open an issue on the statamic/ideas repository instead?

[duncanmcclean]

Nevermind, look at @jasonvarga's reply! 😆

[jasonvarga]

You can make a search index, and then add it to your asset container.

// config/statamic/search.php
'indexes' => [
	'assets' => [
	    'driver' => 'local',
	    'searchables' => 'all',
	    'fields' => ['path', 'anotherfield'],
	],
],

title: My Asset Container
search_index: assets

If your asset container has a search index, it'll use that. Otherwise, it'll just search the path which is what you're experiencing.

https://statamic.dev/search

[Alpenverein]

@jasonvarga Thank you, defining an own index for the assets is working!
I would love to be able to search exclusively in a defined field, like in collections.

But that might be a feature request like @duncanmcclean said.