Advanced search

[carletex]

• What are the options under "date"? Just date asc/desc.... or there are more? (like alphabetical).
• What does clicking "filters" do? Just showing the categories?

@amy-jung

[amy-jung]

Date: ascending and descending Filters: Organization, Category, Author (the current columns we have in our records database)

[carletex]

@amy-jung

Filters: Organization, Category, Author (the current columns we have in our records database)

So what happens when you click "filters"? You get "Organizations", "Categories", "author", and when you click this area:

Get replaced with all the possible options in that filter?

[amy-jung]

Will review after more user interviews.

Some notes/thoughts:

• Assumptions:

  • User Flow 1: Specific request for content. Search “Grants” or “Optimism grants” > Click specific Records page > Click Org to discover more from that specific Org.
  • User Flow 1.2: Specific request by Org. Search Optimism > Filter Records page by Date or Author or Category > Click a specific Records page
  • User Flow 2: Doesn't know what to search. Click Category or by Org > Click one record or search keyword

• Current Ways to Search: Organizations, Category, Date, Author

• All Options would be: Organization: A to Z or Specific Org** Category: single select from set options Date: ascending/descending or specific time frame Author: A to Z or Specific Name** ** denotes more intuitive option

• Helps with Discovery: Category and Organization

• Helps with Filtering a specific Search: Organization, Date, Author, Category

[damianmarti]

Advanced search backend features and deep linking added on https://github.com/amy-jung/collectivedaoarchives.catalog/pull/48

[amy-jung]

Mock-up is ready! See link to figma here

I left UI notes in the figma, but wanted to explain the interaction. I moved and extended the "Advanced search" bar below the text search (Category, Organization, and Dates are multi-select filters to narrow results while Sort.. is sorting results). The search hierarchy goes from left to right. A few examples of flows:

1. Ops & Tools Category > Organization > Between x and y dates, starting with Most Recent
2. All records under X and Y Dates
3. Specific Organization records between X and Y Dates (N/As are automatically included but at the end), sort results by Title A-Z, then Author A-Z, starting with most recent

When No Sort Results are selected, it is automatically by best results, then most recent.