I would like most of the power of filtering at my finger tips.

The new user and customer tabs are partly heading in the correct direction, but don't allow any field to be used, only one each. The current filter system is only helpful for where the information in the filter won't change all the time. It takes too long to create a filter for a search I might only do once or twice. The search capability only does searching on text fields.

A lot of my searching etc relates to custom fields which are pick lists, so it would be important that all fields possible can be used for filtering.

Filtering on a combination of fields is important, as well as using a range or number of values for some fields. So "logically" we want to an "OR" search between a number of values or a range of values in combination with an "AND" in combination with other fields in the search. ( ( myfield == "value1" || myfield == "value2") && ( mynumberfield >= number1 && mynumberfield <= number2)).

This is especially important when there are thousands of items and we only want to see/ export a few. The filter should also affect outputs like reports or export.

An example of another product which does this very well is Jira.

See http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/features/search.jsp for an example ( you can download a free trial I think if you don't know about them already)

What does everyone think (I have added this as a feature request in the "customer portal")