Feature Flags on Organizations shows name but searches on ID

[darkopia]

Bug Description

Bug description

When adding a feature flag for an organization, the organization's filter shows the name of the org but searches on the ID.
You can use the actual name field but the behaviour is slightly confusing

If you are on PostHog Cloud it would be really valuable if you can share any links where the problem occurs. This speeds up our ability to troubleshoot tremendously.

How to reproduce

1. Create a feature flag targetting organizations
   2.Search the organization by name, nothing returns
2. Look at the organization filter and the names are shown but the search actually needs an ID.

Additional context

Debug info

No response

[dmarticus]

@darkopia is this still an issue? Or can you provide more details about it? AFAICT this isn't a problem in our app, but maybe I'm misunderstanding what the issue is. Here's a loom of me trying to reproduce it: https://www.loom.com/share/a50d1b27148443d39d272446645fb317

[darkopia]

Not my finest work on a bug, this is what I should have included:
https://posthoghelp.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/21766

20250114-1800-14.2355059.mp4

in that search, for all other properties you are searching by what is visible, same across all filters actually but there is a company's or orgs or whatever the group is tab that I would expect to be able to search, but I actually need to search by the group ID not the names I can see in the company's tab in that video example.

[dmarticus]

@haacked Ben updated this issue, and now it makes sense! Feel free to take a crack at it as part of your onboarding work :)

[haacked]

Ok, I think I understand the issue. I'll write some notes for my own edification here.

So when we're creating a condition and we click the "Match by" button to select a group type (such as company or organization), we get the following pop-up UI.

This gives you a set of group properties you can match with.

However, there's also the search box above the group properties which looks to be a default search. Right now, it searches on the group key.

When you select the group, it then creates a filter on the group key.

What we probably want to happen is for that search to filter on name, but the result should still be a group_key filter. In other words, in that search box, instead of typing 2 I should be able to type Hed and the fuzzy filter will give me a list of "suggested values". When I pick one, it should still be a group_key filter.

Potential approach

Right now, when you start typing in that search box, it's making requests to:

http://localhost:8010/api/environments/1/groups/?group_type_index=4&group_key={searchField}&limit=100&offset=0