Previously Jon Stahl wrote: > > - the PAS search APIs are teh suX0r. yes, i know that many of the user > > sources might not be able to support sophisticated user enumeration or > > searching. but the APIs should be rich and able to support sophisticated > > searching, with the weaker plug-ins having the ability to opt-out of > > supporting all the features. the current situation is that we have > > extremely > > weak searching APIs, and solutions that provide better support pretty much > > have to route around PAS entirely to expose their functionality. the ideal > > would be to be able to make calls to the acl_users object which will iterate > > through the search plug-ins, transparently constructing queries against both > > an LDAP server and a member catalog because the searched-upon properties are > > spread across both sources. this isn't going to happen without major > > improvements. seriously, the current member searching capabilities are a > > joke. > > > > +1, weak searching really causes lots of pain, and limits the ease > with which Plone can be used to build sites that connect members to > each other. Which is becoming a bigger and bigger part of "online > collaboration" stuff.
That might be, but a browser view is most definitely the wrong place to fix this. If people want to improve on this by all means lets work out a proposal on the zope-pas list. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers
