920168 - Search in "searchable text" which can include tags and channels

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Webtools Graveyard :: Air Mozilla, defect, P1)

Description

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

A combined text field that has a full-text index on it will make it possible to search for things that are both tags and description for example.

Comment 1

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

Actually I change my mind. I don't think this is a good idea. 

* Searching on just one field instead of having to search on `description` *and* `short_description` turns out to not be slow at all. I measured the time it took to search on the word "team" (which finds 218 events) and the whole query takes 48 milliseconds! 

* Suppose that we made a `searchable_text` field which is a concatenated mix of tags, channels, description and short_description then when the search results show a snippet of what it matched on it would return something that doesn't really exist.

* We are much better off trying to match if typed in search phrase is a tag or a channel and if so simply use that to filter on tags and/or channels. We can use something I call "split search" [0] which allows you to type something like "tag: foo" or "richard tag: foo" which would make it a keyword tag search on "tag=foo". 


[0] http://www.peterbe.com/plog/split_search

Comment 2

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

Instead, I'm going to work on this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029859