Why Are Search Results So Difficult for the Software Designer to Figure Out
Last week's post, was not displaying any hint of source for a search result.
This week (just getting started), is not indicating the actual resource; you have to mouse to see 'which book'. Hello!
In example 1 below, is just a straight Basic (aka Book) search, ordered by count. Mystery books (if you're curious, OTP2 has a good appendix). The second display is the same query, but ordered by 'rank' thankfully showing titles (of course order by book, forces a title, whew!).
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DMB said:
This week (just getting started), is not indicating the actual resource; you have to mouse to see 'which book'. Hello!
Yes, indeed. You can forget which resource you're looking at while scrolling through a large number of results.
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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DMB said:
In example 1 below, is just a straight Basic (aka Book) search, ordered by count. Mystery books (if you're curious, OTP2 has a good appendix). The second display is the same query, but ordered by 'rank' thankfully showing titles (of course order by book, forces a title, whew!).
I don't see any problem as the resource title is redundant by Count (and by Resource) whereas you expect a resource title when Ranked mixes results from different resources.
Dave
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No problem with simple results. But often only letters of the alphabet, and you've long passed on which book. The popup is the TOC.
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Dave Hooton said:
You got me on that one. What popup?
If you mouse the 'D' (the header for the search result; no hint of which book), the popup is the TOC. Apparently they up-trace the TOC and as example, 'D' or whatever the dictionary letter it is.
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Some of these things are being worked on and will improve in an imminent release.
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Eli Evans (Faithlife) said:
Some of these things are being worked on and will improve in an imminent release.
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“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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