1118636 - Search for templates

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

What problems would this solve?
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The number of macros is quite big and the only way to find a specific one is to page through them.
A search would make finding them a lot easier.

Who would use this?
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Template editors who don't know exactly the name of a macro or want to browse through a subset of them for some other reason.

What would users see?
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A list of templates filtered by the entered keywords.

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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Enter a search term and pick a template from the filtered list.

Is there anything else we should know?
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One question is whether the search should only work on the template name or also on their contents.

A full text search would e.g. make it possible for translators to find a template by a translated string he or she saw on a page.

Comment 1

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

(In reply to Sebastian Zartner [:sebo] from comment #0)
> A full text search would e.g. make it possible for translators to find a
> template by a translated string he or she saw on a page.

The use case to get the template used on a page will also be served by bug 767176.

Sebastian

Comment 2

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

We have a macro dashboard [1] of macros that is unpaginated. There is a bug that results in inaccurate usage counts (bug 1373848). It is also possible to search macro content on GitHub [2].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/dashboards/macros
[2] https://github.com/mdn/kumascript