It would be great to have the filtering dropdown lists 'Type' and 'Topic'. I used to check the installed libraries with the 'Type' dropdown list which is missing in the Arduino IDE 2.0.0 beta.3
pert
March 3, 2021, 9:19am
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I agree that these are very useful features of the classic Arduino IDE's library and boards managers and I hope to see them added to Arduino IDE 2.x soon.
You are welcome to submit a feature request for this to the tracker here:
That's the best way to bring feature requests to the attention of the Arduino developers.
system
July 1, 2021, 9:19am
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This missing capability is being tracked by the the Arduino IDE developers here:
opened 03:37AM - 05 Mar 21 UTC
closed 08:07AM - 31 Aug 22 UTC
type: enhancement
priority: low
conclusion: resolved
topic: code
criticality: medium
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
Nope, doesn'… t seem like an existing open problem
**Describe the solution you'd like**
I would like to see something similar to the status dropdown in the old IDE to select board/libraries with available updates.
I tried typing `installed`, `type:installed`, and `status:installed` in the search field and it didn't show me only my installed libraries instead of all the libraries available. Nor did `updatable` and `upgradable` show me those which had available updates. Finally, I didn't find a way to force a check for updates or to see when updates were last checked.
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
As mentioned above, tried a few obvious guesses in the search bar to filter on some criteria. Also tried right-clicking on the library and board manager icons but those also didn't trigger any filtering options.
I did RTFM but didn't see information about filtering and updates on
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/getting-started-with-ide-v2/ide-v2-installing-a-library/
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/getting-started-with-ide-v2/ide-v2-board-manager/
**Additional context**
Looks like someone else wants this feature too (https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=730437.0) but I didn't see it when I looked through the issues here, so I figured I'd open an issue.
