Seriously! Fusion Search sucks

[william]

Is this as good as it gets? 

It can't even find a file containing the search term.

Even when you search the exact filename it puts it at the bottom of the search result. 

C'mon Autodesk, you need to up your game here. This search functionality is garbage.

Where do I find the idea station for Fusion Teams so I can suggest better search functionality? 

[forgejax]

Agreed completely, I can't get a search to even return right now via fusion or a360 web interface

[william]

can we get any comment from Autodesk on this? 

[dewaine50]

Bump. This is such a travesty. Literally any intern can implement a simple matching to enable basic functionality. Even Windows search isn't this bad. 

[eugene479Y3]

Autodesk! Own up to this! It seems inexplicable to not make the search feature functional. Will someone at least acknowledge that it is useless in its current form?

[nidhi.wani]

Hello Users,

Apologies for delayed response.

We can understand your pain of not getting the desired result for search.

I am happy to inform you that all of your searching issues are now resolved through Fusion HomeTab. You can access hometab by clicking the small "home" icon on the Fusion desktop just beside undo/redo button.

This search has great capabilities. You can search basis on internal component name or part number or simply search for your design file or drawing by its name.

Let us know if you need any help in accessing HomeTab.

[biuro18]

It is still absolutely horrible. You can be looking at a file in a project, search the exact name and it wil be "not found" one of the of the worst search functions I've ever seen. 

How can a company with a networth of 68 billion USD have such a useless function in one of their programs?

PLEASE FIX THIS.

[nidhi.wani]

Hi @biuro18 

Can you please confirm which Fusion build you are using? Also if you can share a demo recording or the log files of the issue you are facing it will help us to diagnose better.

Hometab search is very well equipped in finding the results based on partial name or exact name match and this functionality is present from quite a long time.

Recently, in Fusion's November release we have enhanced the search to allow users to search basis on component name and part number. 

[adminQYZVC]

garbage, garbage indeed 

[stefan.mueller4Q8UZ]

Thank you for the video. There is no home tab in my fusion installation. In preferences 'General' there is a greyed out checkbox 'Show Home tab at startup'. Mouse over pops up a text '.. progressively being made available to customers'. I am on a paid subscription. When will this be available?

Unfortunately the search button on the top in the data panel misses a lot of search results. Example with searchword 'foo':

- gets results if filename ist 'FOO', 'FOO...', 'ABCDE FOO...', 'FOO ABCDE'.

- but no results if filename is '...FOO', 'ABCDE_FOO', ABCDE ...FOO'.

So it needs to find a space character in front of the search word, or search word is at the first character position in filename, otherwise no results.

Why is this still a thing?

[nidhi.wani]

Thanks for sharing the feedback.

Do you have single user storage/personal hub?  If yes you need to migrate to team hub to see hometab option. Let me know if need any help in migration.

Regarding data panel search issue this looks like implemented the way it is. I will get back on more details on plan of improving the behaviour.

[sawyer37TQL]

When searching the exact name of the part, I cannot find the part that I am directly searching for.  The only way I am able to find the part is going to a model that contains that part and clicking show in location.  Incredible that this simple feature is so broken.

[nidhi.wani]

Data panel supports search based on partial and exact name both. 

Is it possible to share this test case to investigate what could be the issue about not getting the result?

[sawyer37TQL]

I'm not sure how, but yes, I would like Autodesk to investigate why I can't find my parts.  Yesterday I remodeled a part because the search function could not find the part that I searched for with an exact name.  I then found the original part in a different assembly, and now I have 2 of the identical parts with the same name.  I assume you can look at the assets on my account, but I am willing to help however you need.  At this point, it's wasting time and money.

[linas34QMH]

Agree. It needs to be reworked for sure! Can't find any files. It takes so much time that it is unacceptable.

[sawyer37TQL]

Still waiting on contact from Autodesk. @nidhi.wani 

[rettgoings]

Still a horrible search function.

I'm literally typing in the exact file name. ONE WORD. And it can't find it...

[mv2017]

Lame aspect not being able to do a simple search even with exact name, you have to search scrolling dates..........  

[dgibbsEYJNH]

This is still a problem in 2025 how can this be.

Partial or exact searches even do not work most of the time.

Update.

Once I open the files that couldn't  be found the search worked and found them. Was searching under all data both times. 

Maybe this will help you guys figure this out.

[sawyer37TQL]

I had a meeting with Autodesk pretty recently about this.  I shared my screen showing how poorly the search was working for multiple parts.  I then submitted the requested sample files to them and haven't heard back yet.  That was months ago.  There is no solution besides using the separate home tab search to find the part.  That only finds the part, you can't use that home search result to insert the part into your working file.   I have no idea why that home tab search cannot be integrated into the regular search function.  Truly infuriating.  Keep taking our money and not fixing an obvious problem.  It has been YEARS.