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Smarter search mechanism #1059

Open fsajp opened 9 years ago

fsajp commented 9 years ago

Currently, user needs to specify the location of the search term (items/collections/albums). Thus, if the user forgot or do not know that they need to specify the location first (e.g.: search "animal" in collections), then search will be conducted in only in Items, and generate "No items found".

Therefore, we have 2 suggestions:

  1. Would it be an idea to make it more user friendly? Perhaps to have it like google search result? Thus, user just need to enter free search term, and the all search result will be provided, divided to items/collections/albums using tabs?
  2. No result for albums and collections generate the same result: "No collections found!" Shouldn't no result for albums generate result "No albums found!"?
natasab commented 9 years ago

"2. No result for albums and collections generate the same result: "No collections found!" Shouldn't no result for albums generate result "No albums found!"?" => fixed to no results found in recent releases.

natasab commented 9 years ago

"1" will be addresed with the usability study