Completed Search Backend Work

• Table of search weights is a parameter to the search and can be adjusted "easily". Elizabeth has a table of the current weights which will get attached here .
• Fields can be included and excluded from the search (with a single search term against all fields).
• Being able to AND and OR terms.
• The number of results to return can be set.

Implementation Notes

• Punctuation is not stripped from search terms so "Lane," does not match "Lane". This was a bug in postprocessing: punctuation is in fact stripped reedstrm
• The Anding and Oring behavior needs to be documented. Currently I think that all terms are OR'd.
• Someone mentioned that Ebay has a nice inclusion/exclusion interface when results are returned.

Upcoming search backend work (By Friday, Feb 9 AM)

• Searching abstracts, the "full name" field, subjects, and language.
• Being able to match particular search terms to particular fields (this may be a post filter that is applied to the returned results). For example -- search "Lane" in "Author" and "Statistics" in "Title".
• Return the fields where matches were found (but not the matching subpart).

Future work (post-March-release -- April followon release)

• Showing the match exactly -- highlighting the search term within the match
• Site search and workgroup search -- integrating (including, excluding, displaying in blocks) results appropriately. Display workgroup only when logged in -- show that it is workgroup content, not published content. Site search with top left search -- group results separately.
• Searching all versions of modules and displaying the results intelligently