[feature-proposal] Search improvements

[Bráulio Bhavamitra]

Hello Rodrigo,

The last point, defaulting to content search, is not good for non content
focused networks, like Cirandas. Also, category search is still very
important on Cirandas.

The other items seems very good!

Cheers,
Braulio
Em 26/06/2014 12:58, "Rodrigo Souto" <rodrigo at colivre.coop.br> escreveu:

> 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
>
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