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rufuspollock-okfn / opd-brand-manager

A web interface for managing a directory of brands for the Open Product Data working group.
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How to browse the list of brands #23

Open PhilippePlagnol opened 10 years ago

PhilippePlagnol commented 10 years ago

I launch this discussion because the brand list we have currently 2 different approachs in POD and this repository,...

What I did in POD (this is just a point of view and a personal choice) is to create a cache, to pre generate big list of brands and to have 27 lists : a to 7 + 1 list of brands starting with a digit.

The current list doesn't use cache but a search engine.

I wonder is other way exists to make to let people find a brand very easily, so here is my question: -> what kind of browser do you suggest ?

FrancoisDupayrat commented 10 years ago

I just went with the simplest possible method for the first version. Since the brands are now ordered by name, it shouldn't be very hard to use the same browsing as POD, I should be able to do it.

Another option would be to sort brands by owner, but I'm not sure enough brands have an owner for that to be an efficient sorting. That could be an option in V2 (sort by name or by owner), but it might become redundant with the owner list, when there will be one, since looking at an owner details should also show its brands.

PhilippePlagnol commented 10 years ago

Indeed, for the moment, there's not a lot of owner, we just use them for the big company belonging several brands (coca, unilever,...).

The fact to be able to choose is very good I think,... the POD way to browse could be reused yes,... this or an other way,... the objective it to make things easy,...

I personally think that the abcd...xyz is nice to use and close of dictionaries etc...

Of course a kind of ajax (??) text area showing all the possibilities (just like google do) would be awesome but too complicate for the first release ;)