Re: [Treebase-devel] new, simplified search UI

[William P. <wil...@ya...>]

On Feb 21, 2012, at 6:30 AM, Rutger Vos wrote:

> what do you think of this new, simplified search box: http://treebase-dev.nescent.org/treebase-web/search/taxonSearch.html

I like it. 

NCBI IDs and TreeBASE taxon IDs work, but not UBio IDs (they generate a trace). 

The comma-separated terms works nicely -- so perhaps there's no need, then, for the all / any radio button? i.e. if there are multiple items that are comma separated, inevitably these must be viewed as an "Any" search, as an "All" search always would result in nothing. 

> I've done most of the prep work to have the same box for matrix, tree and study searching so that end users just type their search terms and we try to be clever in expanding those into the context-appropriate search predicates.

What if you preserve the popup list for what to search on, but the default item is "guess" or "all" ? 

bp