Hi all, I've had some more time now to look at how we can go from the current advanced search to a more integrated search / customer query interface, which we've called the Query Builder so far I believe.
This is mainly achieved by making facets check boxes: https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound/attachment/wiki/Proposals/BEP-0004/search.png Roughly inspired by Amazons design: http://goo.gl/s1DbM When a user makes some selections in the facets area an then moves the mouse out of the area for a given time, a countdown is shown until those sections in which a selection happened collapse into a more condensed view of the selection: https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound/attachment/wiki/Proposals/BEP-0004/search%20countdown%20after%20selection.png Altogether these changes allow users to execute simple boolean queries, of the type shown below: {text string from search box} AND type a AND status { a OR b OR c} AND component { all } AND milestone { !milestone6} When in the table view users will be able to make batch changes too, this isn't shown in the mock ups yet. What do you guys think, is this going in the right direction? Cheers, Joe -- Joe Dreimann UX Designer | WANdisco <http://www.wandisco.com/>
