Search (by time)

[johnwhelchel]

Hey all,

We need to discuss how search by time might work, and whether it's feasible to add it to the smart bar or should we get an advanced search. I'm inclined towards the latter, if only because Matt's current search view is a behemoth and the basic syntax we had was confusing enough for people. If we do an advanced search, I think a dropdown modal with checkboxes would be nice. Thoughts?

• John

[mhaake]

I'm thinking we should do both. I've begun working on making the smart bar smarter.. i've already got it to recognize times and days, and i've also removed quotes from the review search. I'm trying to make it easier and more intuitive sort of like facebook graph search. That being said I still have a lot of work to get it to that point and I think it's definitely a good idea to have an advanced search option as well just so people can get as specific as they want. I plan on going through and cleaning up a lot of the search stuff and potentially moving it out of views.py into a separate class. I plan on implementing search by any each category or any combination of them in the backend, so it won't make a difference if it's the smart bar or the advanced search making the query.