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FreeGenes BioNode with Django
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Simplify Search / Make it more usable #139

Closed Koeng101 closed 4 years ago

Koeng101 commented 4 years ago

Attached is general picture of how I think https://freegenes.dev/search should optimally work.

In essence, all people really care about searching for are Parts (distributions are sufficiently small that one could just look through them manually). I've drawn in attached document the overall layout I'm imagining:

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Basically, you can click a button to search available parts, or all parts (defaulting to available). There, there would be a few columns: Name, Type, Tags, Available. Underneath the name, similar to the current system, the Description of a Part is given.

Since we're only searching parts, Part : Gemini would get verbose, so there is just Gemini.

One special part (that I don't know the difficulty of) is being able to use # to search tags on parts [this could be a feature for later].

You can click the Available section to be led to the Distribution that that Part is a part of.

This is a first pass version, which will likely take a couple iterations to get right, but I think it is a good start for most folks looking for parts.

vsoch commented 4 years ago

Is this just the front page, or site wide search?

I don't think we want to mess with (what is currently) the site wide search pages - that would make it almost impossible to find any other content you are looking for. What I see here to be a better solution would be to implement a new set of search functions / views, and specifically only for Parts. Then the question is - where would you like this to show up? How do we toggle between admin / staff vs not?

vsoch commented 4 years ago

And just to verify - you are also asking for a bunch of separate smaller menus / selectors below the box. This looks like quite a bit of work, it might not be something I can do very quickly.

Koeng101 commented 4 years ago

What I see here to be a better solution would be to implement a new set of search functions / views, and specifically only for Parts.

That makes sense. In that case, we search should be hidden somewhere (maybe in a link from the Part search), since there is nearly nothing else that often needs searching for (the Map is pretty good for all physical objects).

Then the question is - where would you like this to show up? How do we toggle between admin / staff vs not?

Probably where the current search shows up (current search is just a link to that page)

And just to verify - you are also asking for a bunch of separate smaller menus / selectors below the box. This looks like quite a bit of work, it might not be something I can do very quickly.

Not looking for menus / selectors below the box, just columns with information. And understood that it might be tough! What are some of the harder parts? Perhaps we can make it easier by reducing some feature set, or by doing something else.

vsoch commented 4 years ago

What do you mean columns with information? What are the boxes / terms below the search box that point to the smiley face (is that part of the interface, or your annotations of a user interaction with it?)

Koeng101 commented 4 years ago

I think that is just annotation.

There are a couple of column names below the search box, and then for each row, there is some information. The boxes are just information in each row, I think.

The smiley face just shows if something is available or not, and if it is, directs to the distribution it is part of.

vsoch commented 4 years ago

ohhh is that your drawing of a search result?

Koeng101 commented 4 years ago

Yep!

vsoch commented 4 years ago

okay, all set https://github.com/vsoch/freegenes/commit/e1db37b40d0ebf511c57e2633b320dc12a230caa