Hello @Ben_Lieber1
I applaud your efforts to give us better Search capability, but only if we can hide or turn off the Search bar. With all due respect, you guys seem to have forgotten that there are whole swathes of the data world, where things are confidential.
In my coda apps, for example, there is a table called Document Inventory, which lists all the documents we have uncovered in an investigation. Not evetyone has access to these items: there mere fact that a document exists is confidential; the fact that we have it is confidential, and what it says is confidential - or as the lawyers say “Privileged”.
Another example is in the financial world. The fact that a client has an account at a brokerage house is confidential. What is happening in that account is confidential and requires a subpoens to reveal.
Or in the corporate world: the other day someone on here wanted to produce a table of projects, the people working on them, and those people’s supervisors. Fine; very innocent. But many corporations go to great efforts for security reasons to keep their chain of command and organization chart confidential. Or another example: I believe a major international newspapaer is a Coda user. Are you tellung me that a wander through the Search bar would reveal a reporter’s sources and methods and memos?
I see this Search effort as being like the Sorcerers Apprentice sequence in the Walt Disney cartoon, “Fantasia” where sorcerer apprentice Mickey Mouse decides to use magic to perform his chores, but then he doesn’t know how to turn the magic off!
Please give us the ablity to turn off or hide the Search bar.