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Allow visitors to search and filter documents and law library content #212

Open joeg8612 opened 4 years ago

joeg8612 commented 4 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. There are often collections of documents and pages that constituents would like to search within or filter. The standard site search is too broad. There should be a focused way to search and filter a collection from a page such as an info detail page.

Describe the solution you'd like Documents and other content types (advisory, decision, rules of court, regulation, exec order) currently have a "type" field and a "labels" field. We can consistently make sure that the type field is in metadata and we can also add the labels to metadata. We then can create a component that allows visitors to search for content with criteria such as content type, organization, subtype and labels. The author could predefine the query parameters which could match groups of documents or pages. There may need to be custom fields displayed in the results rather than just a simple link. Requirements analysis needed.

Possible collection include: Audits Inspector General reports DOB enforcement actions DOI public hearing decisions DOI regulatory bulletins DALA General Jurisdiction Decisions MCAD Hearing decisions Ethics decisions / rulings ATB Findings and reports Civil service commission decisions DOR Technical information releases PERAC Memos

Additional context An example of other sites that handle this well: https://www.sao.wa.gov/reports-data/audit-reports/

Other examples functionality: https://secure.sos.state.or.us/muni/public.do https://secure.in.gov/apps/sboa/audit-reports/#/ https://www.stateoig.gov/find-a-report http://ethics.la.gov/EthicsOpinion/Welcome.aspx?dbid=0 https://www.kansas.gov/ethicsopinion/

This was requested by the State Auditor's office.

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MikeWessler commented 4 years ago

This is one of the features that is most requested by individuals seeking information on our audits and other reports. While the existing search functionality on Mass.gov is helpful, it is often too broad and cluttered because press releases and other content types that may contain particular words are included as well. Additionally, as we've moved our audits to an html format (which is undoubtedly a positive thing), the clutter has become worse, as users now also have to sort through various info details pages as well. Giving visitors to our site the flexibility to search audits by year/secretariat/topic and other customizable features would be incredibly powerful.

Lchiong commented 4 years ago

Agreed, I just had an Office Hours session with Kevin on this very topic. Our leadership has expressed interest in expanded functionality with filtered searches, particularly when it comes to our bulletins, advisories and reports. More customizable searches would be a great resource for our constituents. (OIG)

swunderlee commented 3 years ago

MassDOT also has a need for a document search, we like this example on the MN DOT website: https://researchprojects.dot.state.mn.us/projectpages/pages/homepage.jsf;jsessionid=54D508C61B3438C9995993D4BBF6A5D3

klopes55 commented 3 years ago

We also have a need for a document search option for our Research Document Library

joeg8612 commented 2 years ago

This is near release. The feature will be called "Collections". If you are interested in trying this before release, reach out to Joe.

joeg8612 commented 2 years ago

Collection functionality has been released which will help support this need. This does not support full text search of pages in the collection. Search includes only the title and short description of the items in the collection.