[feature-proposal] Search improvements

Bráulio Bhavamitra braulio at eita.org.br
Thu Jun 26 19:52:31 BRT 2014


How can we solve that point?
Em 26/06/2014 19:50, braulio at eita.org.br escreveu:

> 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
>>
>> --
>> 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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