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Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
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Sun, 10 Jan 1999 06:31:52 GMT
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Todd Lehman writes:
> "James Brown" <galliard@shades-of-night.com> writes:
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> > Absolutely. (although, the niggling little voice in the back of my head • says
> > "why not get Todd to add a text search as well?" I'm trying to beat it • down,
> > though.)
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> You mean indexing on content like the set name, human-entered comments, and
> all that, yes? With the option to disable matches on certain fields?
Something like that, yes. I seem to be attacking this from an interface point
of view, so I'll keep with that, for now. Scroll down for an example of some
of my thoughts
> > I know this would be clunky, but how about a two-tiered interface? You • enter
> > what you're looking for, and the engine comes back with a list of fuzzy
> > catagories, with the number of 'hits' in each catagory?
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> Maybe two-tiered along with one-tiered on the same screen? The two-tiered
> stuff at the top, with the one-tiered stuff below it (but not too much that
> it becomes a giant waste of bandwidth)...?
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> I like what Yahoo does, BTW, where they give a list of site-matches, but if
> there are category-matches as well as site-matches, they list those first.
> Do you like that approach?
Yes! I knew I'd seen something similar to the ideas I've been tossing around,
I just couldn't remember where.
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> --Todd
Here's some more thoughts on potential 'looks' and options
Keyword: Santa
Search in: Catagories (O) Set titles (O) Descriptions ( )
Display: Number ( ) Name (O) Availability (O)
[Advanced Search]
Returned n results in Christmas-related sets
Santa Unavailable
Santa plus Reindeer Unavailable
etc
at this level, the database would display results by the lowest applicable
subset - even though Christmas is a subset of holiday, it won't display returns
from holiday (unless there are 'santa' sets that fall elsewhere than Christmas)
Presumably there would be some kind of cut-off, so that a search for "monorail"
would return 2 in 'S'pace and 1 in 't'own, rather than 3 in System
[Advanced Search] would take you to a different screen, perhaps something like:
Keyword(s):
Search Options: "Official" catagories= [ ]
LUGnet designated catagories= [ ]
Set titles [ ]
Set numbers [ ]
Descriptions [ ]
Piece Count [ ]
etc
Display Options:
Catagory Tree (O) Branches up=x Brances down=y
Result list (various options)
- sorted by (list of options)
etc
Something like this, where there is a quick and dirty 'search and go' that has
a couple basic options and would handle the most common searches, and a second
screen where you can configure your search to the umpteenth degree, being able
to create searchs like "'S'pace sets with set numbers less than 6000 and
greater than 6999, previous to 1996, and still available" or "'t'own sets, but
not trains or fire stations, that have more than 100 pieces. or (for some
later implementation) "everything on my want list"
That last option occured to me as I was thinking an 'availablity' tag could be
cross-linked to the (eventual) LUGnet virtual market, for a -->really<--
powerful tool.
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| (...) You mean indexing on content like the set name, human-entered comments, and all that, yes? With the option to disable matches on certain fields? (...) Maybe two-tiered along with one-tiered on the same screen? The two-tiered stuff at the top, (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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