[Chandler-dev] Search update

[Avner Shanan]

-Avner Shanan-


On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Jeffrey Harris
<jeffrey at osafoundation.org> wrote:
> Hi Avner,
>
>> Right now the only functionality actually accessible from the web UI
>> is a basic search on the body of the items in your selected
>> collection.  The code for more advanced searches exists on the server,
>> but I haven't connected it to the UI yet.  There are two paths that
>> I've been thinking about for how to go forward from here.  I could
>> work on the internal machinery that performs the searches itself,
>> adding things like auto completion or stemming (as someone suggested
>> earlier).  Or I could work on an advanced search widget that would
>> allow more precise and in depth searches (imagine something like the
>> Google Advanced Search, image attached).  Personally I've been leaning
>> towards the latter, but what do you think will be more
>> desired/beneficial for users?  I'm in the process of getting a test
>> server set up soon, so other people will be able to test it out soon.
>
> I'll echo Randy that Title + Body would be a great start.
>
> Another feature I think would be really helpful would be searching all of
> your collections, not just the current collection.  The desktop does this
> and shows the number of hits in parentheses by each collection. Seems like
> if you could update numbers for each collection asynchronously in the web UI
> it'd be pretty sweet.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeffrey
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