On 01/03/13 10:59, Andrej Golcov wrote:
I'm not clear on what this means in practice - I had the impression that
both Amazon and (current) Bloodhound show the number of items found under
the current constraints (query term, other facets) per facet.
Actually, Amazon search shows counts for Brands out of search scope.
For example, using your sample from url above, if you filter by
Sumsung brand, you see also other brands and counts. Ok, we are to
deep in technical details here.
It is a good point though. The advantage of allowing this is that we get
the ability to do or relations within each category but, unless there is
some kind of shortcut to the information in whoosh, it would mean
multiple searches.
The ebay solution mentioned in Andrej's reply also shows another means
to create the OR condition by providing a popup to show just one
category of facets which would be a search that could be done on demand.
They also do not bother with showing the number of results under each
category except within the popup.
I think I prefer the form that Joe proposes for giving more information
but it may be worth compromising.
- Number of products can be quite big and facet filter IMHO is not
the best way to filter product specific resource. I would suggest
having an combo or dropdown with product selector. Something similar
to projects in http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues or "computer
components" dropdown in amazon link that you provided. The product
selector can be part of top navigation and used not only by search.
Seems reasonable, although I would suggest that Chosen has a better Multi
Select style:
http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/
+1.
Looks good to me too.
- search breadcrumbs:
- What does link on "Search >" on the left of breadcrumb?
http://[bloodhound]/search (incl current search box query)
Ack
- I suppose that click on "Ticket >" link in the breadcrumbs resets
all filters except search box query? Does "Clear filters" link
duplicates the similar functionality?
My thinking was actually that it removes all filters other than the one for
Type.
I like how ebay represents search breadcrumbs, for example, check this
http://goo.gl/jHZPQ
It is very clear that click on search breadcrumb deletes a particular filter.
This was closer to what I was thinking we would want but it could be
duplicating the ability to delete a filter from the side menu. The
current design is suggestive of a positional breadcrumb which may not be
so appropriate here (though currently consistent with other uses).
- I think about "View as" as a part of toolbar below of search
breadcrumb. The toolbar may include select all/none methods, batch
operations etc.
Yep. Those options shouldn't be visible though unless they actually apply.
See Gmail's batch operations buttons for inspiration.
+1
- Will we support possibility to specify sorting in free text search view?
No - If our sorting of results isn't good enough for the majority of cases
we should probably fix that before we ask users to figure it out for
themselves.
Ok.
Just one note: grid view already supports sorting of columns similar
how it is done in Trac custom queries.
I think we can later provide kind of sort selector, at least for grid view.
Sounds good.
Cheers,
Gary
