[daisy] [JIRA] Created: (DSY-621) Many query fields in dialogs should use wildcards by default

[Allan Pratt (JIRA)]

Many query fields in dialogs should use wildcards by default
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         Key: DSY-621
         URL: http://issues.cocoondev.org//browse/DSY-621
     Project: Daisy
        Type: Improvement
  Components: Frontend (wiki)  
    Versions: 2.1    
 Reporter: Allan Pratt


Most interactive queries done by users should automatically act like there are wildcard characters around the user input.

For example, I used "Create link by searching" in the editor. I filled in the "Document name like" field with the word "suggestions." As a user, I expected this to match any document name with the word "suggestions" in it. Of course it did not - I had to write "%suggestions%" to get that effect.

I'm not a database wonk. I know the word "like" has special meaning in database-speak, but I'm not an SQL query author, I'm a user and I want the UI to treat me like one.

At a minimum, this could be resolved with a change to the helpful text in the query dialog (and elsewhere). Currently the text says "(leave blank to get all documents, use % as a wildcard)" but this is not quite helpful enough. If it said something like "(blank=all, %text% for substring matches)" I would have known what to do.

I realize that the current system is more powerful than one that wraps wildcards around whatever you type. But as a new user it's surprising and frustrating to do what appears to be a simple query and not hit any pages.


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