118122 - Advanced search [customize filters]

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Mike Potter]

We need a way to search for events in a better and more advanced way than we do now.
Dave: We need a design.

Comment 1

[David Dewar]

I'll take a crack at it this weekend.
I'll may need some help getting a build for my Win32 machine :P

Comment 2

[Mike Potter]

As they say in french, ca vien.
(Its coming... :) )

Comment 3

[David Dewar]

Attachment: Initial draft of proposed user interface

This is a draft of a user interface design for the Mozilla Calendar Search.  It
builds on the existing search, with special features for finding events.

Feedback is welcome!

Comment 4

[Mike Potter]

I'll take this, we've got a design from Dave now.

Comment 5

[Richard Klein]

Once the advanced search is done.  This should probably be put in the tools menu
under the search submenu in navigator.

Comment 6

[Mike Potter]

I won't be doing this, I think our search is pretty good for now, but someone
else can feel free to take this on.
I'd model it after the mail / news searching.

Comment 7

[Pham]

I can't do this

Someone change it to OS ALL
HArdware ALL

Comment 8

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

*** Bug 259499 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[David Perry]

*** Bug 255889 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Joey Minta]

Attachment: advanced search v1

This is a first run at making an advanced search.  Rather then have a separate
results field, it displays the results in the unifinder, but it ended up being
pretty close to the initial proposed spec.  Feedback welcome.

The css is split in case we want to put this in base.  Also, I haven't
implemented searching by start/end time, because I want to get the TZ issues
sorted first, so that it performs correctly.  They're easy enough to add in the
future though.

Comment 11

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Could you post a screenshot or two?

Comment 12

[Joey Minta]

Attachment: Screenshot

Screenshot of the advanced search dialog.  Looking at it now, I should probably
right-align the 'Remove' buttons, and I feel as though it could use some nice
color/icons, but this should give everyone a general idea.

The second ('connective') dropdown and the third (data-input) field are
dynamically updated based on what's selected in the first dropdown.  The first
dropdown menu currently includes the majority of fields in the New Event
dialog, and it's fairly easy to add new ones.

Comment 13

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

Do we really need an advanced search? I think a calendar is usually used to see
what you need to do in a certain time range. You are not looking for an item,
but for a day.

Comment 14

[Joey Minta]

(In reply to comment #13)
> Do we really need an advanced search? I think a calendar is usually used to see
> what you need to do in a certain time range. You are not looking for an item,
> but for a day.

It's certainly not a top priority, but I think it would be helpful.  There's
some discussion in the newsgroup about where I see this going:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/netscape.public.mozilla.calendar/browse_thread/thread/434b77d2b76540cb/58a7746f083bb639?hl=en#58a7746f083bb639

Specifically, an advanced search interface is the first step on the road to
completely custom (saved) views.  If a 'show only these events' button was added
to the results list, the user could filter out particular events that he doesn't
want to see.  This feature would also extend the free/busy support requested in
bug 205659. 

Comment 15

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

A 'filter' feature would be nice. But do we really need to filter on all field?
I think the calendar and the category would be enough, and maybe title.
(Filtering on time is already a natural part of the views) All the others sounds
like overkill to me. I just want to keep the interface clean and simple.

Comment 16

[gekacheka]

The corresponding message filtering capability in Thunderbird (and Seamonkey)
provides for custom filters, so providing capability to create custom filters
for calendar items improves consistency.

I suggest the user interface also be consistent with the Thunderbird/Seamonkey
interface, maybe can reuse much of the same code.

(added "customize filters" to summary to make this easier to find)

Comment 17

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

If you're trying to be consistent with the Thunderbird front-end here, wouldn't
it make more sense to reuse their portion of the UI and simply add
calendar-relevant search fields to their advanced search mechanism?

Comment 18

[Joey Minta]

*** Bug 316377 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[Joey Minta]

*** Bug 332687 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 20

[Joey Minta]

Re-assigning my bugs to [e-mail] due to recent developments.

Comment 22

[S. Christian Collins]

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Comment 24

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Comment 25

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