Adding Junction node ids to search results?

[gregorius]

Hi There,

I have a use case whereby it would be useful to have the junction nodes as part of a search result. It's very obscure so no surprise that junction nodes aren't part of the search results.

To illustrate my use case:

Here I'm comparing two versions of my flow and the sidebar is showing a wire difference

Each wire is a node id so in this case node id 1fb88a2c8e3e0418 has been replaced by d75c060fc66713cd - turns out I replaced one junction node for another but that's not recognisable from the node id (which happens to be a junction node).

Because I didn't know it was a junction node, I did a search for the node id but I got zero results which is unusual since node ids are indexed by the search:

So this is a bit confusing until I realised that it's a junction node:

I know it's a minor and obscure use-case but perhaps there is a reason for not including junctions in search results (probably because of the number of potential junctions) or whether it's actually something that has been missed and never asked for.

Cheers!

[Steve-Mcl]

It was touched on a while back: How to find a Junction - #3 by Steve-Mcl

[gregorius]

Cheers, I've added a backlink to the PR.

It's probably would also require extending the select/highlight functionality which doesn't IIRC support junction nodes, only groups and "real" nodes. I.e. even if the junction nodes were to be in the search results, there is no way to highlight them within the workspace.