Vidar, Those operations would certainly be useful... You probably also want a "missing this property" choice in the facet in order to select everything that doesn't have that property.
This is all possible... but designing an intuitive UI for them is tricky. David Vidar Falkenberg wrote: > While working on my exhibit - www.internetaviser.dk/typologi.html - I > realized I wanted the ability to do and/or/not searches like in relational > databases. > For instance, if I select a property value in the property "services", I > would like the possibility to add another property value that is present > in items with the first selected property value (equivalent to AND). This > is similar to del.icio.us, where, if I select a tag, related tags are > displayed with the number of tags, a + sign, and a name of the tag. > Clicking the +, the selection is narrowed, choosing links with tag1 AND > tag2. > > Secondly, I would like to be able to exclude any property value instead of > including it (equivalent to NOT). I have seen this in Adobe Photoshop > Elements Organizer, where you can either select all photos with any given > tag, or select all photos without any given tag. > > I'm not sure if this use of operators is possible or desired with the > exhibit data model, but it would make sense in my exhibit ;-) > Most of the properties in my exhibit have multiple values, but I guess if > I had chosen to have each value as a boolean property, the kind of > searching described above would be easier. > > > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
