Re: [Treebase-devel] Unified search

[Xianhua L. <xl...@du...>]

My 2 cents. Please consider supporting pagination of searching  
results. Too many hits in the search results will overwhelm the  
browser and make it hang forever.

Xianhua


On May 27, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> What you describe sounds similar in concept to NCBI's GQuery, so you
> might want to look at that:
>
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/
>
> 	-hilmar
>
> On May 27, 2010, at 4:06 AM, Rutger Vos wrote:
>
>> Ok, so, about the searching thing. Here's what I think we could do:
>>
>> * we create a separate page, something like "meta search", or "simple
>> search" or whatever
>>
>> * on that page is just a single search box, a la google
>>
>> * you stick in anything you like and press the button
>>
>> * with javascript, we then compose all phylows queries we currently
>> support, i.e. match against taxon names, taxon IDs, study IDs, etc.,
>>
>> * we fire those requests as AJAX calls
>>
>> * on the server side, we return the results structured as rss (but
>> maybe translate them to JSON)
>>
>> * as the AJAX responses are coming in, we count the number of items  
>> in
>> each result feed
>>
>> * we can then report how many hits there were on each supported query
>>
>> * and we can make expandable boxes to actually list those hits, or
>> make the hit reports clickable to take you to our normal results  
>> pages
>>
>> It seems to me that this would be the easiest way to support this
>> functionality.
>>
>> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Rutger Vos <rut...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>>> http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2010/05/treebase-ii-makes-me-pull-my-hair-out.html
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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