Clear selection of item when search text has been cleared or changed
Feature function
Selection of item
It will fix user’s misunderstanding why strange item is loaded into the right panel when search text has been changed and the item is not part of search result
It’s not just for search, it’s anytime you click on an item it populates the right side window, and there is no way to clear it. You can click another item, but then that item is displayed.
There HAS to be a way to clear the right side window that displays all the sensitive info from your item.
This is a minor feature request that I feel is warranted.
In the desktop client when you open a vault item I couldn’t find any way to dismiss the vault item without closing the entire application. You can click on other vault items to hide the one you’re looking at but that just opens another vault item.
It would be nice for me to keep my Bitwarden handy at times when I need it repeatedly, but not leave my 2FA tokens constantly running on my second screen for anyone to glance at.
Not sure if it’s a good idea but I was also thinking about maybe having some configurable auto-dismiss period? Like after 30 seconds of inactivity in the app, the vault item is dismissed.
It would help user’s operational security a great deal for all BW clients to have a way to CLEAR the currently displayed entry. The desktop client currently retains the current entry and continues to display it after minimizing or entering something else in the search box and has no timeout.
The only way to “clear” the displayed entry is to display some other entry.
For that reason, in the absence of a feature to automatically clear the displayed entry (much like the vault timeout locks the app), there should be some method in the UI to clear the current entry. Alas, only “add”, “edit”, and “delete” buttons are available.
Not even clearing the search bar clears the displayed entry. Even entering a search value when there are no results fails to clear the previous item displayed.
However, there is a workaround. Create an entry named “~~BLANK ENTRY TO CLEAR SCREEN”. That will always sort to the top of the list, and you can select it for display, and clear the previous entry from being displayed.
This should have been built into the UI from the start.
Clearing the search? Clear the displayed entry.
Entering anything in the search (i.e. changing the search)? Clear the displayed entry.
Vault timeout locks the vault? Clear the displayed entry. You can get it back by selecting the item again from the vault.
Feeling like someone is shoulder surfing? Click something (e.g. clear the search per first scenario or a “Clear Entry” button) to clear the displayed entry.
Sensing a pattern here?
Currently, there is NO ability to clear the currently displayed entry to manually intervene and prevent display of credentials (like MEMO field content specifically, which is often used to store additional authentication details - backup codes, security questions/answers, Account IDs, etc.
Please can we have a better way to securely use BitWarden on the desktop than a workaround/hack?
I’ve merged a few related posts, and changed the thread title to make it easier to search for this topic (was: “Unselect item when search text is cleared (or changed)”).
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Having the same issue. One way to implement this would be to clear the item when Esc is pressed, like WhatsApp Web and Telegram do for conversations.
My current workaround is to create an “Empty Item” in an “Empty Folder” that I can select when I need to hide the current item, but it’s a very annoying way to do it.
