Search Enhancement
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hazzy
Joined: 2005-05-07
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Posted: Mon, 2009-09-21 09:12
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No sure if i have missed something but if I search the Gallery using keywords and say it returns 50 hits, when I visit the first result and press next, I see the next picture in the album that the first result existed in not the next in the search results set. So I have to go back up, repeat the search and then select the second result and so on. Hard to keep track of and hard on the gallery visitor. It would be nice if the result set was a "virtual" album so it could be paged through. Any comments or ideas? John |
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You could probably create a module to do this, but it may be difficult. In the search module, as you've seen, if you click on a result you are taken to that item and the place where that item lives. I seriously doubt that behavior will change for the default search module. That's how all search engines I've ever used work. You visit any result and you're looking on that page on that site and have to click the Back button on your browser to go back.
I'm not sure what you mean by having to repeat the search. If I click the back button it takes me to the same search, with the same search results and even to the same page I was on.
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Hi. I made a theme which has this behavior. This is the same for the tagged items.
I agree with hazzy, when you click the next button you attempt to see the search item.
Have a look here for the theme: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Themes:3nids
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Do you mean "you attempt to see the next search item." ?
Again, I've never seen any search engine that behaves that way and it seems like it would be extremely unintuitive to do that, so I seriously doubt that behavior is ever going to change in the core product. You click on a result in a search listing and you go to that result, you click Back to go back to the search listing.
I could see where someone could create a custom search module that displayed the results in a different manner, possibly some sort of frames or even possibly do that with the current module with a custom view.
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yes...next searched item!
I do agree, but it only depends on how you see the search function: display linked results or create artificial album with the results.
What I did in the theme is putting under every searched or tagged items a link to the parent album.
It might be unintuitive if the user feels like being in an album, if he knows he's still browsing the results, there's no misunderstanding. That's what I tried to do with links to parent albums.
In the way gallery is displayed now, I agree it will be very confusing if you see the next searched item when clicking next!