[Epic] Teachers and Students should be able to search

[dogezen]

We would like to offer teachers and students the ability to use the search bar in the Header to search for:

• cohorts
• students
• teachers

Requirements

• As a user of the platform, I should be able to type some text in the search bar and on pressing enter on the keyboard OR clicking the "Search" button, I should be taken to the search results page

• On the search results page, I should see the following:

  • If I am a student or a teacher
    • Other users (teachers or students), if the user's data matches the search text (see below with requirements about the matching)
  • Teacher only
    • Cohorts

• How searching should work:

  • a search string might consist of several WORDS (ie: "aaa bbb"); you must find matches for each of aaa and bbb and keep results that match aaa only, bbb only or both aaa and bbb
  • here are the fields you should try to find a match for:
    • users
      • name, email, and any field on the profile
    • cohorts
      • name
  • a partial match is acceptable: ie. if I search for "and", I should match for a student named Andy
  • the search should be case-insensitive, ie searching for Andy or andy should find a student whose first name may be andy or Andy

• the search results page should have a path of /search?query=.... where query is the the text the user has entered; you need to figure out how to get the query= bit using react router when the component loads, so you can perform the search

• the search page should present a Searching... placeholder while we aggregate all results

• the search page can be broken down into sections, grouping all the matched students; matched teachers and matched cohorts in different sections

• a section should state "No matches found" if there are no results for that section

• Each search result should have buttons for the teacher or student to perform the following actions, quickly

  • User search result (All users): button to view the profile; or to view the cohort the person is in
    • NOTE: in case of a student, the button to view a cohort should be replaced by a text of the cohort name, if the search result PERSON is in a different cohoort to the logged in user
  • User search result (teachers only): button (or option dropdown) to add a student to a cohort if the person is a student and NOT part of a cohort
  • Cohort search result -> button / link to take me to that cohort's profile page

Wireframe

This wireframe is a concept and may not capture all the requirements above, please amend as needed.

[Dex491]

• here are the fields you should try to find a match for:
• users
• name, email, and any field on the profile

The server doesn't currently have the capability to search by anything other than cohortId, firstName and id, so how should we move forward with this?