Micah
I've been heads-down on the quick search bar feature for a couple days and wanted to show the progress.
"Watch the video":https://vimeo.com/66772087
A few things to keep in mind:
* It's currently unstyled. I'm not sure yet exactly how I envision it fully styled. I want to present the information nicely, but compactly, so we can show a large result set. I'll have to get Drew in on this when he's got a free moment.
* It's attached to the current layout, but will move to the sticky bar that you see at the top of the campaign dashboard pages. I want it to be always there, just a click (or perhaps hotkey) away.
* When I select the page to go to, the page loads very slow. That's because it's my development environment which isn't optimized like the production environment. Just ignore that.
Let me know what you think!
Comments
@calion - Yes, the idea is that if you submit the search form without choosing an option, it will do a full-text search of your campaign. However, I like the idea of being able to get to a page that shows a listing of all bits of content tagged with a certain tag. I'll have to think about that a bit.
Just trying to help out.
I think, at least from what I gathered from the demonstration, that the "campaign global" intelligent search will also include content fields when determining relevance. If that's the case, I think it should resolve that issue since it's grouping them by type by default, and there won't be a need to be so redundant with labeling.
That being said, full-text searching and refinement (often called "faceting") is possible, but it's not trivial. Our existing search already allows faceting by content type (post, wiki page, character, user, etc.) but I agree that there's plenty of room for improvement there.
Can you give examples of sites with good searching that offer the refinement you want? Specifically, if there's a site that has user generated content (like a wiki or forum) and an especially good search, point me there and tell me why you like the search.