Suggestion for root node link in super seach results.

Just pondering a slight modification to the way super search displays its results. The problem is that replies in a thread are often out of context without their parents.

Consider the following two results - lifted straight from super search. The first result is a reply to a node - if I want to read the whole thread I need to go to the reply and then go to the root thread.

2002-02-26 Ovid (Ovid) Re: Script (ovid's) explanation Re:SoPW

2002-03-21 gmax Introduction to Tree::DAG_Node Tut

I would like a link to be placed next to replies that lets you jump directly to the root node if the result is a reply. The following is a suggested format:

2002-02-26 Ovid (Ovid) Re: Script (ovid's) explanation root node Re:SoPW

2002-03-21 gmax Introduction to Tree::DAG_Node - Tut

I know that super search already gives the DB a hard time. However compared to chugging through the database this small mod should not add too much strain. It would make searching (for me at least) much slicker.

It could be made really slick if each reply in a thread was labeled with a <a name="147658">. This would allow the link to the root node to look like this: <a href="/index.pl?node_id=147625#147658">root node</a> and then you would jump to the reply in the thread. I appreciate that this involves a more fundamental change to the code base.

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(jeffa) Re: Suggestion for root node link in super seach results. by jeffa (Bishop) on Jun 19, 2003 at 17:20 UTC
This is probably a good idea. hacker suggested something similar at Linkable Node ID in Writeups quite a while back. My answer is the same as always ... join pmdev and start patching. ;) jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply]
Re: Suggestion for root node link in super seach results. by naChoZ (Curate) on Jun 19, 2003 at 17:19 UTC
One way that might save on queries is to have the "root node" link like you show, but it doesn't contain the link to the actual root node id. That would mean a super search will have to look up the rood id of each match. Instead, clicking on the root node link can look up the root of the clicked node only and display it. ~~ naChoZ	[reply]
Re: Suggestion for root node link in super seach results. by freddo411 (Chaplain) on Jun 19, 2003 at 17:48 UTC
I concur. I invariably follow the link up to the root node. This fits my definition of an interface improvement: apply machine cycles to minimize 'clicks' by the user to get what s\|he wants. ------------------------------------- Nothing is too wonderful to be true -- Michael Faraday	[reply]
Re: Suggestion for root node link in super seach results. by greenFox (Vicar) on Jun 20, 2003 at 06:06 UTC
++I think it's a great idea. I've thought for a long while that I'd like to have a root node link in the "new Notes" section on Newest Nodes and also for replies in the User Search section; so that I can, in one click, get to the top of the thread. This possibly saves some load on the server as well due to the fact that users are not loading an intermediate page just to click through to another. -- Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. -Basho	[reply]


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