general_search_plan.md

General Search Ideas

• Add "distance from location" to location filter on search results page
• Season replaces "Category" on filters when lookign at sacc site, swap green/yellow for all cases, so season ends up as green

First Iteration (primary and misc only, hold off on system actions) (search box)

vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr

• figure out common fields between search indices, for INDEXING MODULE
  • Doesn't matter what actual name ruby attribute is, SOLR defines (label/name) as name according to SOLR
  • Most common: name, address, acronym
• ONLY_ACCESS_USER_ID for search indices security, so you can only access "facilty accounts" that you have access to
• solr_batch indexing
• controller to handle searching on the index
• UI

###Icon with A belongs to B (search box)

• field_name, grabs all with matching field name, then displays "all objects in B"
• Other appraoch, seasons and instructors get indexed, have "hidden", and instructor_name is a field on there
• Courses example
  • If many results, show as list item "courses in winter"
  • Else give it a separate box udnerneath "programs" listing 3 courses and show more

Filters (UI)

• Use Facets

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Backend coding

• separate acts_as_indexed_solr for online side
• Get filtering to work
• Redesign flow
  • Type -> Display results,
  • On Mobile: Type, show results, click result, hit back button, what do you expect?

General things to get done

• Design UI
• Decide if preview or not (probably not, very complex)
• STick with 3 category results, only show picture and category name, don't show desc

Good examples of web app search

• http://www.metacritic.com/
• https://seatgeek.com/
• Icons for categories?

How do we want to auto-handle the following similar cases?

Natural language processing

• Related forms
  • authorize
  • authorized
  • authorizing
• Differring parts of speach
  • pickup
  • pick up
  • pick-up
  • picking
• Shortened versions of words
  • Info
  • Information
• Phrase as fragments
  • Sign
  • Sign Up