Convert all search fields in RENXT webview to click/hit enter to search instead of auto-search

In webview, some search fields try to search as you are typing in them and some need you to hit enter or click on the magnifying glass to start the search. It is incredibly frustrating that this behavior is not standard across webview.

I suggest converting all webview search fields to requiring that you hit enter or click the magnifying glass to start. The areas where search tries to trigger WHILE you are typing the search term are incredibly frustrating. In Funds for example, sometimes it is on a hair trigger and starts trying to search after I've only typed one character. Even a millisecond pause will trigger the search. This means I have to wait while it goes through it's whole search to bring up anything matching that ONE character and then try to start typing again. Sometimes it tries to trigger a search several times while I'm simply trying to type one word. It is incredibly frustrating and I'm a very fast typist. I'm sometimes searching for several funds in a row and this system behavior makes it take 3 times longer than it needs to take to do a very simple task.

Please convert all search field across webview (including those within query and reports and especially those for searching for constituents, Funds, Appeals) to click to search fields. It is so much less frustrating to tell the system when you're ready for it to search than having it interrupt your typing to search for whatever portion of data you've entered.

I've chosen Constituents as a category for this, but this Idea is really for a system-wide UX change.

  • Maya Rosman
  • Jan 23 2026
  • Reviewed: Voting Open
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  • Catherine Sumner commented
    11 Aug 19:37

    The search function in Webview needs to show all the contact info when providing results and when we click on the search for relationship records we need to be able to customize the columns that are shown in the chart. We need more data like Constituent Codes. This would help with identifying people with the same name.

  • Allison Dickerson commented
    10 Jun 19:13

    Oh man, this is happening to me in certain search fields and it is SO AGGRAVATING. Thank you for submitting this!

  • Jeannie Goings commented
    10 Jun 14:31

    To Maya's consternation, it appears that search is combing through both the ID field and the description field which slows the process. Other ideas have been posted to search the fields separately rather than together.

  • Allison Dickerson commented
    20 May 18:39

    Anytime I have to pick up my hand to click on something instead of being able to just enter a few letters or characters and have it auto populate is time wasted. All functions should be able to be accessed via keyboard or tab through to search, hit enter, etc.


  • Chris Fedor commented
    27 Jan 21:00

    Consistency PLEASE!!!!

  • Heather MacKenzie commented
    23 Jan 20:10

    this is a duplicate of RENXT-I-9206

  • Heather MacKenzie commented
    23 Jan 20:09

    I struggle with this also. I'm trying to type in my keywords, don't realize it's doing the search character by character timing-wise, and then have to go back and delete and start over because it's skipped past some of my typing. This slows me down in my work day.

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