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Make facets better on search results page #32

Open sseymore opened 7 years ago

sseymore commented 7 years ago

Create a better UI for City, County, Frequency on results page.

https://digmichnews.cmich.edu/cgi-bin/michigan?a=q&hs=1&r=1&results=1&txq=apples&puq=&txf=txIN&ssnip=txt&o=10&dafdq=&dafmq=&dafyq=&datdq=&datmq=&datyq=&e=-------en-10--1--txt-txIN----------

jechols commented 7 years ago

In addition to being a bit unweildy, here's an example of confusing faceting:

The county dropdown includes "Marion" county because some number of papers have apparently been tagged with both locations. If you select it, you expect to refine down to the ones that have been tagged with both counties, so you'd end up with just 679 results, since that's what shows up when you select it: "Marion (679)". What actually happens is it replaces the previous county facet, showing you everything tagged with "Marion" county.

It may be a huge pain to allow selecting multiple values under a single facet, but if that's the case, we shouldn't allow it at all. Implying that it will work is poor for usability.

sseymore commented 6 years ago

Another example:

Doing an advanced keyword search on one title and choosing an option in the Sort drop down on the results page and then choosing "Refine Search" is losing the newspaper selection.

Example: Do a search for "switzler" in East Oregonian and get 405 results. Choose Date in Sort and Refine Search. All titles appear, not just East Oregonian.

I think this might be happening only when certain titles are selected.

Also: #open-oni/open-oni#213