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Admin side search #352

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ghost opened this issue Oct 4, 2014 · 3 comments
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Admin side search #352

ghost opened this issue Oct 4, 2014 · 3 comments
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admin-side enhancement priority 3: medium
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ghost commented Oct 4, 2014

From stefdawson on December 21, 2012 16:11:52

Current search facility is limited to one field at a time. A preferable approach is to make the default 'search everything' (within the context of the current panel) and then allow filtering if more specific results are required.

Aims of this may include:

  • A single search box with popup filter, akin to like http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/UIElements/SearchBox/ but with all boxes selected by default.
  • 'Memory' so the last-used checkboxes for each panel are remembered (per user).
  • Option to automatically prepend 'all' to the passed list of search locations.
  • Allow developers to utilise the core's search box on their own panels.
  • Ability for plugins to chime in and add columns / search options.
  • Fixes for the columns that are defined as Integer: alphanumeric searches always return 'true' if the database has a '0' in the column.
  • Backwards compatibility with existing plugins that use the URL to filter as a link destination.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/textpattern/issues/detail?id=348
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ghost commented Oct 4, 2014

From stefdawson on December 21, 2012 07:16:07

Status:

  • Search box: Done and working using "or" searches between columns. CSS / markup tweaking in progress.
  • Memory: ToDo.
  • Prepend all: Done.
  • Dev/Plugin/compatibility interaction: Done, in testing.
  • Integer search fixed courtesy of (e.g.) "convert(on_frontpage, char)" in critsql.

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ghost commented Oct 4, 2014

From stefdawson on December 21, 2012 07:23:09

Unsure if search can be improved to be more natural. For example, on the Users panel, searching for "publish" does not return all publisher accounts, whereas searching for "1" does because publisher accounts have privs '1'. This is counter-intuitive from an end-user perspective and unnecessarily exposes internal features of the database storage methods.

It's a feature of the fact the search maps what is searched on a one-to-one basis with the database. Perhaps search abstraction as part of a DB wrapper will allow intelligent conversion of typed-text-to-DB-data so more 'human' searches become possible more easily.

@philwareham philwareham added this to the v4.6 milestone Oct 4, 2014
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This is done in admin-layout-branch and will be merged soon. Closing.

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