[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/3/08, Andreas Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It looks like most people would prefer separate indexes by default. So the
most useful change would probably be to make the index configuration
optional. Did I understand this correctly?
-- Andreas
Sorry, "opt-in" may be American slang -- means default to exclude
everything with an option to be included. (The opposite is "opt-out"
meaning everything is included and each must ask to be excluded.) The
suggestion is to specify in each Publication whether to be included in
each multi-Publication index.
Using the school district example:
<publication id="school1">
<search index="work/search/index"/>
<search index="/commonindexes/town1"/>
<search index="/commonindexes/county1"/>
</publication>
The first index path is relative and Publication-specific; no
Publication-specific search index is created if this entry is missing.
The other two indexes have absolute paths and may include several
Publications. Each Publication must be configured to be included in
town and county indexes. A developer may provide search screens using
each index, or may provide a single search screen allowing users to
choose whether to search this school, the town, or the county.
The configuration could allow additional filtering, useful for
multiple targeted indexes at both the single and multiple Publication
levels:
<search index="work/search/sports" filter="category='sports'"/>
<search index="work/search/music" filter="category='music'"/>
<search index="/commonindexes/countysports" filter="category='sports'"/>
<search index="/commonindexes/countysmusic" filter="category='music'"/>
This is just an example and is unlikely to be the exact syntax needed
for filters. Whether a filter is applied during indexing or as part of
the search query is a design decision. Having an index including just
sporting events may be useful to limit the index size (and improve
performance) if county-wide searches are common:
search?index=county&query=basketball
search?index=countysports&query=basketball
The latter should exclude pages that include the word "basketball"
without being in the sports section of each town's Publication.
solprovider
This would make sense to me. Make the indexes seperate by default, but
allow for combining in such a way. I do have districts that will have
several different publications for each school. This is mostly due to
the fact that they are districts by force and not choice. I stay out of
the politics. The population of my counties are quite small.
Richard
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