Suggestions for v6

[isd]

hello,
i would like to have ability of creating clickable links in sitemap for human users and beter seo purposes, something like this tool can do:http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

thank you ewa

[Ray]

I suppose what you mean is a HTML sitemap. This is something we have considered in the past, but we believe it would need to be fairly configurable in layout and design for it to be really useful. So we have pushed it back as an idea, but we may dust it out again if there's interest.

[iantresman]

Sitemap suggestion

I suppose what you mean is a HTML sitemap. This is something we have considered in the past, but we believe it would need to be fairly configurable in layout and design for it to be really useful. So we have pushed it back as an idea, but we may dust it out again if there's interest.

zoom_pagedata.zdat is already similar to a required HTML site map. Aside from formatting the URL into an <a href> tag, I would just add a <li> tag with various classes indicating the entry's (a) category (b) file type (c) directory level (for nested indentions).

[iantresman]

Search specified document/directory

I would like an easy way to "Search this specific document", or "Search these documents in this directory".

By specifying a filename, directory (or patial path), and ensuring search results URLs match, this could be done. PHP would let me generate the specifed filename easily. Think of the directory or filename as a pseudo-category.

Regards,
Ian Tresman

[iantresman]

Export (or view) Advanced search form

When playing around with Categories, I'd lilke an easy way to "export (or view) Advanced search form" so I can be sure that my search form has correctly numbered categories selection fields.

I can't find a way of doing this without performing an index update.

[iantresman]

Advanced settings.zdat editor

I'd like an easy way to override some of the settings that are currently found in settings.zdat. For example, I want to:

• Change the TemplateFilename. My site has a single search page, index.php which includes my menus, and which I want to use as my template too. Saves me having to duplicate its layout each time I make a change.
• Override some of the strings
• Override CSS classs and id names

Regards,
Ian Tresman

[iantresman]

Collapsible &quot;detail block&quot;

With the correct classes and ids, to optionally display a clickible [+] or [-] that collapses or expands a search result detail block (or expand/collapse all). This could allow a long list of collapsed results to be displayed.

I believe that a bit of Javascript would be required to power this, as CSS is not sufficiently cross-Browser compatible.

Regards,
Ian Tresman

[David]

I would like an easy way to "Search this specific document"

If you want to search for a specific document you can search for its file name in the current software.

or "Search these documents in this directory".

This can already be setup in the current software using categories.

I want to Change the TemplateFilename.

There should never be any need to change this file name. It is not visible to the end users.

Override some of the strings

The strings are in the language file. See the languages tab of the Zoom configuration window. So this is already available.

With the correct classes and ids, to optionally display a clickible [+] or [-] that collapses or expands a search result detail block

I don't think we have any CSS block called search result detail. Maybe you mean the ".result_block" class?

[iantresman]

&quot;Batch&quot; Rewrite all links

I'd like to be able to have a file of different links to rewrite, optionally not affecting the file extension image path.

[iantresman]

With the correct classes and ids, to optionally display a clickible [+] or [-] that collapses or expands a search result detail block

I don't think we have any CSS block called search result detail. Maybe you mean the ".result_block" class?

I'm thinking of the DIVs with class="context" and class="description". But I need an optional clickable link outside these DIVs to trigger these collapsible blocks.

Regards,
Ian

[Edward]

Recommended Links

The box for entering recommended links is fairly fiddely. it would be nice to be able to import these from a spreadsheet with each entry element in a separate cell, or better still for the list to be continuously editable as an xml file (or similar).

[David]

The box for entering recommended links is fairly fiddely. it would be nice to be able to import these...

I think you must be using an old version of the software. V5 already has this feature.

If you have a large list of recommended links to add or maintain, you can import them from a text file created by any text editor. The file needs to be pipe separated (the pipe is the vertical '|' character), with a recommended link entry per line. For example:

Keyword1|http://www.url1.com/|Page title|This is the page description
Keyword2|http://www.url2.com/|Another Page title|This is the page description for the 2nd page

You can also export an existing list of recommended links to a text file of this same format. This way you can maintain them outside of Zoom if need be, and/or import them back in to other ZCFG files.

[Ray]

When playing around with Categories, I'd lilke an easy way to "export (or view) Advanced search form" so I can be sure that my search form has correctly numbered categories selection fields.

I can't find a way of doing this without performing an index update.

Perhaps this is not clearly stated, but the category numbers are simply the order of the categories that appear in the Configuration window, starting at zero. With -1 being "All".

[MikeR]

Boost Results By Category

I would like to have the ability to boost results by category.

For example I can study my web statistics and I can see that after a search the resulting documents are most read from a particular category. However they may have had to go to page 6 of the results to find it. I would like to boost that category so it's results come first.

[MikeR]

Assign Icon for a Category

It would be nice to be able to assign a result icon for a particular category. This would work the same as the "assign an icon by filetype" however when configuring your categories you could have an option to assign an icon to it. The search results would have an icon depending on the category those results were in.