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.

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