On 12/02/10 04:22 -0800, Tobias Paepke wrote: > > I want to bring here the discussion about the general aspect of having only > > on > > large text entry (like Google) instead of many widgets (currently). > > I think it will make the interface cleaner and more useful. > > Of course it will need some "clever" autocompletion help. > > where will that search field be put?
It is to replace the current set of input boxes on top of list. > i'm looking forward to have a global search field with a grouped > search result: > > %<---------------------------------- > [*hol* ] (Search) > > results in: > > Articles___________________ > Holmes autograph > Sleepy Hollow - the movie > > Party_____________________ > Holmes and Watson Detectives > Holmes Inc. > > Invoices___________________ > Investigation to whatever > > Calendar__________________ > friday: Meeting with Watson and Holmes > > Attachments_______________ > holmes_picture_1.jpg > holmes_biography.pdf > > %<---------------------------------- > > To have the same behaviour: put in text, and fire the search button > and take a deeper look in results. > Well, not everytime the best choice, but a lot of times very handy. > It may be necessary to define one or two global searchable fields per > model (name, description) or over every field via some fulltext- > engine. This can not be achieve with a SQL database as backend. To implement this kind of feature, I think it must be done with some external tool like Sphinx [1]. But this is for an other thread. > > And there should be the "old" extended search for searching inside > special Fields and/or Models. > For extended search it would be great to have a search to span over > multiple models to search for common attributes like "name" (product- > name, party-name). Maybe with an checkbox next to every model in the > list. Again this can only be done with external tool and not with SQL database. > > It would be a nice feature to surf through the resultset. I don't know > how to explain that very well. Here is an example how you can klick > through your data maybe with an indefinite tree-view, a new kind of > view or with new windows. > > party > +invoices > | invoice 1 > + invoice 2 > | article 1 > + article 2 > | stock > + party (supplier) > | address > + invoices > + invoice 1 > + article 1 > | invoice 2 > | article 3 > | ... > | invoice 3 > | invoice 4 > > well. hope you got it. imho treeview is not the best one, but good to > explain. What will be the usage of such view? [1] http://sphinxsearch.com/ -- Cédric Krier B2CK SPRL Rue de Rotterdam, 4 4000 Liège Belgium Tel: +32 472 54 46 59 Email/Jabber: [email protected] Website: http://www.b2ck.com/
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