Suggestions for v6

[Dan Peterman]

something else...

1) i would like to see the other 70.3% search phrases returning in zero results... when i look at my stat report, i like to know what is coming back as a zero and use that name as a synonym or as a recommended link so something returns that is close to what they are looking for.

2) i would like to see a stat of when something is searched and results come up, i would like to know what they are clicking on... is it the first thing that comes up? is it further down on the list? do they even click on anything? i think that information would be very useful for making a site more "sticky" and having less people bounce out.

just a thought.

[MikeR]

Some nice ideas (the category ones would be worth considering).

RAW images ... is anyone else interested? We are already indexing EXIF data from other image files. See:
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/support...ins_image.html

I personally do not think regexp support would be beneficial, as the number of end users who are capable of using regexp are so small, and it would just complicate things for everyone else. The amount of index data necessary to address the full range of search queries that are possible with regexp would also hinder speed of searches and the size of index data significantly.

Sorry...I should really RTFM.

This is great. Okay so how about intorducing the concept of sub categories. For example a category called Photos with sub categories for EXIF Data of our choice

RAW images may just be a subset of people. It of course interests me because all of our product shots are RAW only. We have applications that organize these but seach is a little to be desired. This is where Zoom would shine.

For regex I totally understand. I currently have a script that I front-end to zoom specifically for those that need regex. Basically its a search box that accepts regex expressions then chooses 20 variations on the expression and sends those over to zoom. My team uses this only in extreme situations as it opens 20 Zoom search result pages

[Ray]

Some nice ideas (the category ones would be worth considering).

RAW images ... is anyone else interested? We are already indexing EXIF data from other image files. See:
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/support...ins_image.html

I personally do not think regexp support would be beneficial, as the number of end users who are capable of using regexp are so small, and it would just complicate things for everyone else. The amount of index data necessary to address the full range of search queries that are possible with regexp would also hinder speed of searches and the size of index data significantly.

[MikeR]

Full regex support in searches.

Not sure if it's doable but having full regex support in searches would be nice. Or at least expand the wildcards to match up with the most commnly used regex (expressions).

[MikeR]

Support for RAW Image and EXIF Data

Would be nice to add RAW image processing to the image indexing. Each RAW file has a jpeg thumbnail imbedded in it which can be extraceted via the RAW file.

In addition it would be nice to have the ability to index the EXIF data of RAW and other image files. This could allow users to put "EOS 5D" or "85mm" in the search and the results would return only images that had that in the EXIF data.

Here is a very powerful command line EXIF extractor/writer that I have used in some of my programming. http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

[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.

[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.

[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".

[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.

[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).

[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

[iantresman]

"Batch" 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.

[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]

Collapsible "detail block"

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

[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