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dlo_itools
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Sep 26, 2002, 10:55 AM
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We are planning the features for the search function in the next major release of Article Manager, and we want our users' input on the feature list. - What are the shortcomings in the current searching that you experienced?
- What new search features would make your sites even better?
The new search features will be carried forward to future products as well, so think outside the box! Your ideas and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
/Dave Lo
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canvey
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Sep 26, 2002, 11:30 AM
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Just a couple of ideas on this....
Mutiple search options - ie the ability to have a search tied to a category - to be able to search just for that one category, but also have the ability for the main search engine to search anyone of a selected list of categories. Ideally both options should be able to run on the pages at the same time.
A simplified search (as present), but a link to an advanced search page, where the user can select a) how to search (AND, OR etc.), but also be presented with categories to search in, to narrow down the number of results.
The ability to search other non AM pages on a site (not sure if this would be possible)
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Teambldr
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Sep 26, 2002, 11:33 AM
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Hi,
A couple thoughts
Logging of search terms and a call to place the top X search terms from the past X days on the site that creates a link to the search results.
Searching by more criteria...author, date span, assignable categories, etc...
Expanded search functions to other IT AM installs, other IT products and other non IT products that results in an output such as:
We found X number of articles:
Art 1
Art 2
Art 3
etc...
We found X number of posts:
Post 1
Post 2
Post 3
etc...
We found X number of links:
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
etc...
We found x number of whatever listings:
whatever 1
whatever 2
whatever 3
etc...
Just a couple ideas to ponder....
Brian
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MalaK_3araby
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Sep 26, 2002, 4:42 PM
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- search for phrase in field [drop down list of values: (All, prespecified fields/spare_fields] and category (all, list of categories)
- sort results by relevancy or by category
- display title only OR title & summary
- search for phrase within results
- advance search (AND, OR, NOT)
- specify the data file the search engine uses with the ability to specify more than one data file (for those who use multi installations of AM, or more than one product from ITools) .. hopefully a dropdown list that reads from the config file, or better, reads from another config file that belongs to the search engine only.
- exact phrase or "Like"
- search the web (deopdown list of famous search engines)
- hightlight the search term on result
.. thats all what i can think of right now.
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DaveCusick
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Sep 27, 2002, 1:37 AM
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Re: [MalaK_3araby] Ideas for Searching
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I actually posted the first two of these in another thread recently, but I've reposted them here since dlo's requested some input, and I've added a couple of new ones.
1) Choose search method - AND/OR. This one's an essential.
2) Make it possible to narrow down search results so that they only contain articles where a specified art_field contains a particular value - this needn't necessary be available as an option on the advanced search page, but it needs to be available as an option you can specify in a search engine query
eg http://www.gamesolutionzone.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/search.cgi?template=related_articles.html&perpage=5&keyword=prisoner&art_field2=magazine
...so that only results where art_field 2 contained the word "magazine" would be returned.
3) Provide full documentation for all the options you can append to a query - at the minute there isn't any documentation at all (at least none which I can find) so I've ended up performing advanced searches, then stealing bits of the resulting URLs to hardcode as links and includes.
4) This is a bit of a strange one, and I suspect it would be redundant on a MySQL-powered AM, but it would be very useful on systems powered by AM 1.x without SQL support. Basically, add a facility whereby as part of the publishing process you could specify a list of searches, the output of which would be saved as HTML files that you could include in other pages - so instead of having to include dynamically generated search results in, say, your index page, you could include the previously-generated search results, thereby reducing server load and slightly speeding up the page display time.
I see this feature as being a textarea box (or a list of 10ish text boxes) in the admin section of AM, into which you could just type a search engine query, followed by perhaps a comma and then the name of the file you'd like AM to output. Users could list one query on each line of the textarea (so there's no maximum limit on the number you can do). During the publishing process, AM would perform each search just the once and then output the file for you into a given directory (public_html/artman/publish/searchincludes or whatever).
This would be very useful because I've seen a number of very clever solutions to reader questions in this forum that involve including search results in, for instance, the index page (the columns workaround, and the pics-for-top-three-headlines trick) and I'd love to employ some of these on my two AM sites, but I'm conscious of banging the server a bit with endless included search results.
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Dave Cusick (dave.cusick@livepublishing.co.uk)
Group Editor & Web Administrator
Live Publishing International Ltd
www.livepublishing.co.uk
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canvey
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Sep 27, 2002, 6:18 AM
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Also an option for matching the case or not.
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MalaK_3araby
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Oct 8, 2002, 2:52 AM
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Hi again ..
may i add some more stuff? Okay .. thanks:
- Displaying the number of results found
- Results page navigation (we also need that in the Index page of AM)
i.e: << < 1 2 3 4 > >>
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