{"id":559,"date":"2026-02-08T12:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/?p=559"},"modified":"2026-02-08T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:53:00","slug":"improved-search-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/2026\/02\/improved-search-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Improved search tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When the field names project was started, you could only search modern place names. Following a discussion with Chris Fleet, we decided to augment the tools. First the ability to search all the database fields was added (and specifically field name, farm name, parish and the long text field).  And as of today that place name functionality has been expanded to include a National Grid Reference NGR and also the OS six inch 1885-1913 names. The example below shows the free field search in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1243\" src=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/files\/2026\/02\/image-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/files\/2026\/02\/image-scaled.png 2560w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/files\/2026\/02\/image-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/files\/2026\/02\/image-1024x497.png 1024w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/files\/2026\/02\/image-768x373.png 768w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/files\/2026\/02\/image-1536x746.png 1536w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/files\/2026\/02\/image-2048x994.png 2048w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/files\/2026\/02\/image-1568x761.png 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the field names project was started, you could only search modern place names. Following a discussion with Chris Fleet, we decided to augment the tools. First the ability to search all the database fields was added (and specifically field name, farm name, parish and the long text field). And as of today that place&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/2026\/02\/improved-search-tool\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Improved search tool<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":628,"featured_media":563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-methodology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}