On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Pau Giner <pginer@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all,

I created a prototype to illustrate some of the concepts for searching a flow board:

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  • Integrate search with table of contents. The table of contents can act as a de-facto search results summary you can open after searching to have an overview of the topics where your query was found (and information on whether some of these topics were in your watchlist or you participated in them).
Which raises the question[1] why not show similar information in the regular TOC? A regular TOC could show the same watchlist and my participation indicators, and show number of posts and/or number of participants in place of number of search matches.

I think the two spike items to research are
* Can we get a count of matches in each topic from CirrusSearch?
* Can we enough information from Cirrus about ALL search matches to highlight search matches throughout an entire live topic?

The interesting UX case is whether users will use the < > 2 of 7 mode to advance from match to match through the found topics.

I don't recall Pau pointing it out, but the gray indicator line underneath, showing your progress with search match markers is really cool. Danny doesn't like distracting animation and it will be difficult to keep the representation accurate when topics aren't yet loaded, but showing users where you are while scrolling through a 400-post topic seems extremely useful.

[1] Not "Begs the question" !!! arggghh
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