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: [Untitled] Here I'm comparing two versions of my flow and the sidebar …

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 …

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Adding Junction node ids to search results?

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Steve-Mcl 4 May 2026 08:59 2

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

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Adding Junction node ids to search results?

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