Pathfinder 2 SRD

sindenkysindenky
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the page: http://pf2.d20pfsrd.com/rules/spells/
This page used to be extremely long as it included the full description of every spell at the end. This has recently been changed, with the "Lists" category being changed to "Database". 

As far as i can tell, there is no long a single page that lists each spells full description. This page was EXTREMELY useful to me as i was able to quickly 'CTRL+F' and search every spell for specific key words. If a page like this still exists then were is it now located? Otherwise, i think adding a page were i can search every description at once would be helpful.
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  • jreystjreyst
    That doesn't exist now and likely won't. If there is enough demand for it it could be "re-added" but right now all spells, feats, backgrounds, ancestries, monsters, etc. are (or will) be on their own individual page(s).
  • sindenkysindenky
    That's a shame. I hope there ends up being some demand as 1 tab with CTRL+F is worlds better than 80+ tabs open for each page. 

    Don't get me wrong, I like the database page and each spell linking to its own page and am not saying it should be removed, but would be cool if there was 1 more page to allow for searching. 
  • jreystjreyst
    The problem becomes when new stuff is released then we have to maintain two workflows, one to make separate pages and one to continually update one long, long page, that eventually becomes very slow to load and gets penalized by search engines due to load times. There are pages on d20pfsrd.com right now that are like that, that have many, many things on one page, but only because it became too much work to split them out and now those pages are even exceptionally hard to edit because they take so long to load.
  • sindenkysindenky
    That's a fantastic point, and i can absolutely see how the 1 large page would be a pain to edit/update.

    Perhaps there is a better solution somehow? To give you an idea of what i am doing, I CTRL+F things like "Slow" or "Cantrip" to be able to quickly flip though spell descriptions. Most of the time I'm after a particular "class" of spell that wouldn't normally merit having a filter tag.

    The only thing i can think of similar to this is the PFSRD's Traits Filter Database page, letting me search names, perquisites, or descriptions for specific key words.
  • mattmatt
    Just to add to this after 18 months!

    Once our new search system is done (apologies that I can't give an ETA yet, other than "it's on the list"), there will be an option to list excerpts next to the page name.  Usually this will be the first paragraph of text from the page after any statblock info, which looks in the case of spells to get the description in the majority of cases :)   

    You'll also be able to search for things based on what they are (spell, monster, feat, etc) and any text within the page, so for example "all spells with this word in the description".

    At some point I'll get a proper development roadmap up so everyone can see what's planned and some kind of time estimate!

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