[feature-proposal] Search improvements

[Leandro Nunes]

This is for rails3?

When it will be done? :)

Great!!!


On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Rodrigo Souto <rodrigo at colivre.coop.br>
wrote:

> Hello guys,
>
> I'm developing some reasonable improvements to our search feature. Here
> is a list of what these improvements are:
>
>    * Smart term suggestions on search query: this feature suggests search
>    queries based on previous searched terms, sorting them by a
>    composition of occurrences (which also considers newer occurrences
>    more important than older ones) and relevance (less results means
>    more relevant). This feature also implements hotspots for search
>    engine plugins to provide any desired terms instead of the core
>    default behavior.
>
>    * Ajax it all: every search operation (pagination, query searching
>      and display filters) runs now through ajax, reloading only the
>      results.
>
>    * Search asset menu: the search interface now has an asset menu,
>      which facilitates the navigation through different types of
>      entities (people, communities, contents, etc).
>
>    * Default global search to contents search: due to our database
>      relational design, searching on multiple entities is always
>      painful. So instead of having the global search, which was a
>      bottleneck of performance, I changed the default search to go to
>      the contents search. This change comes specially nice with the
>      backup of the asset menu. P.S.: the index and category_index
>      actions are still available although are no longer recommended.
>
> More information and a demo video can be found on:
> http://noosfero.org/Development/ActionItem3142
>
> --
> Rodrigo Souto <rodrigo at colivre.coop.br> :: 55 71 8131-7714
> Colivre - Cooperativa de Tecnologias Livres
> http://www.colivre.coop.br/
>
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