[Design] Search

[Sheila Mooney]

John,

After looking at the wording, we certainly could have made it more  
obvious. Thanks for pointing this out.

Cheers,
Sheila

On Jan 31, 2007, at 7:27 PM, D John Anderson wrote:

> The way it works today is that search results return results across  
> all collections in the sidebar (but not within the app area). Each  
> collection shows the number of matches in that collection. From  
> reading the spec it was not obvious to me that the search results  
> would be filtered by the selected collection and app area. However,  
> I think this makes more sense than the way I read the spec, so I'll  
> look into doing that.
>
> John
>
> On Jan 31, 2007, at 6:47 PM, Sheila Mooney wrote:
>
>> Actually I wrote this. What is means is that in an "ideal"  
>> scenario, when you search it searches across all collections and  
>> basically shows you how many search results are returned per  
>> collection ie: (10). So I might have my work collection selected  
>> and search for "QA", my list view would change to show the search  
>> results in my work collection. I would also see if there are any  
>> other matches in other collection ie: Office Calendar. If I click  
>> on one of the other collections, it shows me those search results.
>>
>> It's been a while since we discussed this but I believe that Andi  
>> told me that this is a) hard and b) has performance implications.  
>> We weren't sure if we were going to be able to do this. This means  
>> that if you do a search it just searches the selected collection.  
>> If you click on another one, it automatically punts you out of  
>> search mode. I guess I was assuming that we could only handle the  
>> one-collection-at-a-time search for Preview.
>>
>>
>> On Jan 31, 2007, at 4:15 PM, D John Anderson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 31, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Dan,
>>>>
>>>>> My other comment is that I didn't immediately clue into the  
>>>>> necessity of
>>>>> clicking the [X] in the search field to switch back to a normal  
>>>>> view.  I
>>>>> first tried clicking on other collections and appbar view  
>>>>> buttons and
>>>>> was a little surprised and distressed when nothing seemed to  
>>>>> happen.
>>>>> Maybe we should make the search results go away when these  
>>>>> types to
>>>>> things are clicked on?
>>>>
>>>> I think what's supposed to happen when you click on other  
>>>> collections is
>>>> that the list of search results is supposed to change (filtered  
>>>> to only
>>>> items in that collection).  That doesn't appear to be in the  
>>>> code yet.
>>>> If that was working, do you think you would've been less confused?
>>>
>>> Maybe Mimi could clarify this. The spec reads:
>>>
>>> "Ideally, we would like this feature to always search all  
>>> collections in the sidebar (within an app bar area) and return  
>>> the search result numbers for each one displayed in the sidebar  
>>> ie: Home(3), Work(10). Your currently selected collection would  
>>> stay the same but results for all of them would be calculated and  
>>> the totals displayed. "
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