On 01/19/2011 09:57 AM, Invenio Trac wrote:
#450: Proposal: 'Restrict further searches to this collection' checkbox --------------------+------------------------------------------------------- Reporter: fjorba | Type: enhancement Status: new | Priority: major Milestone: | Component: WebSearch Version: | Keywords: --------------------+------------------------------------------------------- (Quoted vervatim from a mail I wrote to the -users list 9 jan 2009)Hi all, I have been thinking on a search option, easy to implement, that could benefit a lot current Invenio sites. As you know, you can start searching an Invenio site at any collection, and the first search is effectively restricted to this collection. But as soon as you start clicking hiperlinks, the searches are no longer restricted to this original collection. The current software allows, of course, to restrict afterwards those searches to any collection via the pulldown menu of the list of all collections, but in many installations this list is quite long, and not practical to do more than once or twice. Adding a '&c=mycollection' to the url is sometimes faster, but we cannot expect to do that to everybody. And indeed, there are cases that creating such an isolated view of the site is useful and desirable. The solution I've come up with is to add a checkbox next to the search field with the text ''Restrict further searches to this collection'' or similar. If checked the collection name would be 'sticky' until unchecked again. I think that it would be relatively easy to implement. Unfortunately, I cannot do much of it now, except of asking your opinion about it. What do you think? Thanks, Ferran
Hello,I am just a user setting up a system with restricted collections only. Your proposal would be very useful to our needs for at least two reasons:
(1) as the number of collections grows, it would simplify the search interface for most of my users because they are only interested and/or allowed to search in a specific branch of the collection tree.
As an aside: would it be feasible for users (or admins) to see only those collections where they have access rights?
(2) I have noticed that the 'similar' search fails if documents are restricted. It used to work when I had the documents in public collections.
Best regards
Irene Buettner
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