Make default (or add an option for) recursive location search

[ericswpark]

What is the problem you are trying to solve with this feature?

Suppose I have a location tree like the following:

• A. Home
  • a. Bedroom
  • b. Living Room
• B. Workplace
  • c. Storage Room
  • d. Office

When I search for an item, clicking on the parent location (A or B) will not include items within sub-locations (such as a, b or c, d). I must select A, a, b to see all items in A, for example.

What is the solution you are proposing?

Make location searching recursive. If I choose location A, also include sub-locations 1 and 2 into consideration.

What alternatives have you considered?

Adding a search option "Recursively search locations" that will toggle this behavior. However, I don't like this because:

• I feel like intuitively this should be the default behavior, which means the option will be on by default, unless we re-word it to something like "Exclude child locations"
• It adds complexity to search that I don't think is necessary. I can't think of a reason why "Exclude child locations" would be useful.

Additional context

I am willing to try implementing this myself but wanted to ask what the correct approach should be before I go and try to write it out.

Contributions

• I have searched through existing ideas in the discussions to check if this is a duplicate

[phb170465]

There are several comment on this topic ... I agree with the idea that item in sub location should appear in parent location item list.
No need to big changes. Just change the query for the item list --> select item in location and recursivly in all sub-locations