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Re: A requested improvement for LUGNET
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 20 Jun 2000 01:21:17 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> > Hi Todd and Suzanne,
> >
> > I find the set search box on the home page really handy. I would find it
> > even more handy if it appeared on every page when I'm reading the • newsgroups.
> > Is there any chance you'd implement that?
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> We've got a prototype new more user-friendly homepage which has a multi-
> search box replacing the single-search box, and what it does is combines
> things into one text box (to type into) and a drop-down list box saying
> what to search, with the default being the sets DB. The form gets posted
> to a special-purpose redirector script on the server which channels the
> search to the appropriate spot. So, in a word, ya!
Super! And that will appear in the same spot that the current newsgroup search
appears when I'm reading news?
> > It seems like something with
> > almost no extra overhead, and I bet I'm not the only one who would benefit
> > from it.
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> It works pretty slick. :) And even has an option to launch a tiny self-
> contained window for results of the search search.
Even better. I ended up thinking that it would be nice if the results would
float above the news, rather than shifting the page. It sounds like you've
thought of everything.
When do we get to see it? :-)
> > Something that I just thought of as a converse issue, is that it might be
> > handy to have a search of the newsgroups available from the set database
> > pages. Crafting such a search would be much harder.
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> Kind of like a "search for more info or people talking about this set" type
> of thing?
Exactly like that. I was originally thinking that you could just have a link
to the results of a search for the set name and set number, but now I'm
thinking it would be more useful to manage the information more than that. You
could have one link to a search of the reviews group. And another, only
finding news less than 40 days old (or whatever), to the market.bst and
market.auction groups for current availability. Etc. I'm not sure what all
along these lines might be useful, but those two certainly would. Maybe links
to the theme-based newsgroups too.
Chris
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| (...) Yup -- very likely it'll look the same in that context except for the inclusion a drop-down listbox, and it'll act the same as well, to the extent that 'news' is the selected listbox item. It's a short-cut to having a "real" integrated search (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) We've got a prototype new more user-friendly homepage which has a multi- search box replacing the single-search box, and what it does is combines things into one text box (to type into) and a drop-down list box saying what to search, with the (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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