[feature-proposal] Search improvements

[Rodrigo Souto]

Hey Braulio,

Maybe we can make the default search asset customizable on the
environment. About the category search, since I can't refactor it within
the scope of what I'm doing, we may keep it the way it is which will
still work.

Bráulio Bhavamitra escreveu isso ai:
> 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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