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  1. Qt Creator
  2. QTCREATORBUG-33589

Target list in build page needs filtering and structuring

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      The build configuration page's target quickly gets out of hands already for any project with a relevant amount of tests our additional tooling, as it can be seen in the following screenshots.

      This project has something like 300 build targets. Selecting a target from this list is painful.

      There really needs to be something be done, to allow structuring and filtering targets.

      A first step would be introducing a search box for filtering targets.

      Having a checkbox to filter out wellknown auxiliary targets like *_qml_importscan also would help. Ideally one could also specify a list of project specific auxiliary targets that also would be filtered.

      Maybe it also would help to use the project's directory hierarchy or some dedicated CMake target properties to introduce some dedicated grouping, like "Applications", "Tools", "Automated Tests", "Tests/Auto/Foo Library".

      For long term it should be considered to

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