Customize autocomplete search results

[gmclelland]

Here's another idea.

I'm not sure if this is possible, but It would be nice if users could somehow customize the text/markup of the admin theme's search autocomplete results similar to how you did with customizing the page tree labels with "Allow markup tokens for "List of fields to display" in PageListTweaks.

That way people could include images, icons, page ids, or whatever in their autocomplete search results.

That could be also be helpful for those who are using the "image as a page" techniques. If you aren't familiar with the "Image as a page" technique, It is where you store only 1 image per page along with fields for that image's meta data like image attribution, image tags, etc... That technique is used when people want an image library to reuse already uploaded images.

When performing an autocomplete search for an image they could see their image thumbnail and that image's page title in the autocomplete search results.

In the Drupal world this reminds me of https://www.drupal.org/project/finder and https://www.drupal.org/project/search_autocomplete modules

Here is what a customized autocomplete could look like with images in the autocomplete search results.

[rolandtoth]

I see the benefits but I'm also not sure if this is doable without enormous efforts. There are lots of fields to take care of (almost all) and the final outcome is unpredictable (results can contain any kind of pages, not only "image" types, etc).

[gmclelland]

No worries, just thought I would throw it out there.