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Attached mockup of how the search bar might fit into the context of the dashboard.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4_HCol896iTOFVycmp1QXBoNFE
Think it would be appropriate for this to be able to filter automatically by what group you are currently viewing but the results page should allow you to remove this filter and show all group results.
(Results page mockup coming soon)
Richard D. Bartlett Mon 14 Jan 2013 8:12PM
Nice! @jonlemmon do you think it will be significantly easier to limit the feature to just the group page? It would be really nice to have it on the dashboard...
James McCann Mon 14 Jan 2013 8:14PM
@richarddbartlett From the way I have seen it so far either group page or dashboard page will be fine as it just applies a filter after the list of discussions has been created.
Jon Lemmon Tue 15 Jan 2013 1:26AM
@jamesmccann @richarddbartlett sweet, I think you guys are right that it should work fine for either page (dashboard or group).
@jamesmccann thanks for the mockup. So I assume those results only display upon clicking the search button (and not filtering as you type)?
And just as a point-of-process - we've found that it's really useful to describe all of the actions that the user has to take within the mockup itself (e.g. "user types in 'other' into this search box, clicks the search button, and sees the results on slide #2") It might sound pedantic, but it makes understanding & agreeing upon a feature way easier.
James McCann Tue 15 Jan 2013 2:04AM
@jonlemmon Yeah good idea re: descriptions on the mockup. To answer the question in this instance I had actually thought it would be nice to have live filtering as you type.
The search button would take you to a results page which has more detailed results (i.e. searches comments etc not only titles).
I guess this effectively means the initial filtering of the discussions list is the same as displaying a dropdown auto-complete box underneath the search field.
Sorry if its not clear - maybe I'll come down after work and show you what I've got?
James McCann Tue 15 Jan 2013 2:05AM
p.s. not sure if anyone has reported this but I get two notifications for being mentioned twice in your below comment? If this is a known bug I can look at fixing it as well.
Richard D. Bartlett Tue 15 Jan 2013 2:59AM
Good spotting on the bug @jamesmccann, I've added it to a related card on trello.
Personally I tend to agree with your suggestion for live-filtering in a dropdown, with the search button taking you to a detailed results page. Come visit us anyway :)
mix irving Wed 16 Jan 2013 6:01AM
this has been suggested as potentially interesting
http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/
mix irving Wed 16 Jan 2013 6:29AM
zone searches :
site wide vs. only in group/subgroup
Aaron Thornton Wed 16 Jan 2013 7:59AM
I have already fixed that bug.
James McCann · Mon 14 Jan 2013 8:00PM
@jonlemmon Sweet as, I'll chuck down my thoughts so far.
Here's a quick "mockup" of what I've got so far, sorry was easier to do it this way than in balsamiq.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4_HCol896iTdXVmTGpIaHNHWjA/edit
Basically the discussions list will be filtered against the search term on the discussion titles. So a commonly used word might still bring up multiple pages encouraging the user to be more specific. This is just an assumption that discussion titles would be the most common things searched for.
Looking ahead I was thinking a similar UI to above but with an extra search button (like the mockup here https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4_HCol896iTOFVycmp1QXBoNFE) which will link to a "full text" discussion, context, motion, comments search with a new results page.
Let me know what you think.