Re: Create a unified browse and search interface as GSoC 2015 idea prototype implementation

On 25 March 2015 at 02:10, Thanuditha Ruchiranga <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> First of all thanks a lot for replying :).
>
> Sorry but I think I did not quite understand what you meant by
> "If someone's selected an attribute (e.g. person or United Kingdom) should
> those details be dropped from the list of results (perhaps replaced by
> others)?"
> As far as I understood are you saying that if some one selected person or
> United kingdom, the result records do not need to show it is of type person
> and from United Kingdom, is that it? :) Well that sounds valid though I
> will make it such that the selected fields fill not show up in the results
> then shall I?
>

That's what I meant, yes. Although I hadn't thought about multiple options
being selected (e.g. type:person OR group). So, maybe it's just cleaner to
leave it as-is? Or don't show the details in results only where a single
option for that field is selected. I don't know :)


> How about adding a SortBy selection box in the top of the results table?
> The user can then select which way he wants the result table to be sorted
> from?
>

Sounds good

>
> By adding flags did you mean showing them up in the results or showing
> them against the country names in the selection list?
>

I hadn't thought about the selection list but I guess in both would be
good, if it doesn't clutter things up too much


>
> Thanks
> Ruchiranga
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:55 AM, Tom Crocker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ruchiranga
>>
>> There's some nice things going on there. A few things I wondered :
>> If someone's selected an attribute (e.g. person or United Kingdom) should
>> those details be dropped from the list of results (perhaps replaced by
>> others)?
>> I can see they're sorted by country, but then what? Worth using the sort
>> name?
>> Do you want to add flags for countries?
>>
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