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Re: Improving the Parts Tracker experience
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Wed, 19 Nov 2003 15:36:43 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Thomas Garrison wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Steve Bliss wrote:
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> > - Paginate the ptlist; 20-100 parts listed per page.
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> This would definitely be a move in the wrong direction, unless there also
> continued to be an option to continue to see the whole list on one page.
> Quite aside from the hassle of having to page through material, the Parts
> Tracker is where unofficial files live. Thus, if someone wants to find
> out if a part is out there but unofficial, the method is to go the the
> parts list and use your browser's "search in page" function.
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> For example, someone recently needed a .dat of an unofficial part (40902,
> I think) right away for some commissioned work. I was able to quickly
> find it by going to the list and searching for "hinge". Anyone could do
> this. If the list were forced into pages, finding that part would have
> been much more difficult, and people not intimately familiar with the
> Tracker and/or LDraw nomenclature might well have given up, either
> believing that the .dat did not exist or not wanting to bother with the
> trouble.
How about a search function, similar to the one on PartsRef? Enter a term, and
the search engine checks the file names, part names, CATEGORY statements, and
KEYWORDS statements for matches. The current PT search function is file name
only.
John
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