Proposal Save Your Search

Date	2015-08-27	Contacts	Arnaud De Groof, François Prunayre
Status	On going	Release	3.0.3
Resources	Available	Ticket #
Source code
Funding	Metawal

Overview

To improve user experience, add:

a list of predefined search (eg. most popular records, last modified).
the option to save a query or a selection of records (to run it later)

Proposal

Model

A search is described by:

a set of parameters as created by the search form (eg. ?inspiretheme=Bio-geographical%20regions)
a label (multilingual)
a creation date
an author
an order
a list of groups (0..n - 0 means only the author)

Tables created:

Search
id - int
parameters - text
creationdate - varchar(30)
authorid - int/FK users.id
orderposition - int
SearchDesc
iddes - int/FK search.id
langid - varchar(5)
label - varchar(255)
SearchSharing
searchid - int/FK search.id
groupid - int/FK groups.id

UI

The list of default predefined public search are:

Latest updates
Most popular records

In the search application:

a button is added for identified user to save current search
a button is added for identified user to save current selection as a search
a button is added to apply a saved search

The application URL is used to share search using the permalink.

The list of searches is displayed as a dropdown near the full text search input. Searches are ordered by:

public searches
user searches (current user is the author)
my group searches

In the editor board, when the search change, the page location is updated to have the same behaviour as the search app. Same interaction with the saved search is available.

In the user preference page (see https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/wiki/Proposal-User-Preferences), the list of user search is available and can be managed.

In the admin, administrator user can managed all saved search. The saved search manager panel provides: