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Weekend Activities Filter SD502/503
Add a filter to the activities search so you can find weekend events only.
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Add Activities and Routes & Places to a Map SD184/287
It'd be cool if we had routes and places all shown on a map! And link to trip reports :)
7 votesCompleted May 2016.
Look for the “List | Map” links in the upper right hand part of Find Activities and Find Routes & Places searches to toggle the view.
Happy searching!
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Add skiing categories to activity and course faceted search GH2753
Its hard to find cross country ski courses in our find activity and course searches. Can we add cross country and backcountry ski filters
6 votesAug 2018
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Improve site wide search SD360
Always show text box with search button in the header of the website, the magnify glass doesn't look like a search button the way other websites do. - suggestion from Focus Groups
In site search show summary view of course, activity and events. Bring search filters over to the left hand side which would allow you to search for activities, events and courses all in the same place. It is important that start date of the activity range is part of this site wide search. Make it so that leaders and admins can search for things like activity templates or…
6 votesWe added a box next to the magnify glass to make it more evident that you can search mountaineers.org
The search now allows you to easily filter by content type more easily like file or course or activity or member (Contact).
The search is by relevance but there are now search features that allow you to additionally filter by created date or start date or A-Z etc.
We encourage you to go ahead and try it out and let us know if it appears there is a filter missing or another way you’d like search results displayed.
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Improve Text Search Results GH2835/2836/2913(590)
Refine the the text search results for all of the faceted searches including site search. Using threes words (W1, W2, W3) as an example, by rank ordering results in this order:
1. Phrase – W1 and W2 and W3 in that order
2. Contains all three words in any order
3. Contains W1 and W2
4. Contains W1 and W3
5. Contains W2 and W3
6. Contains W1 only
7. Contains W2 only
8. Contains W3 onlyInclude some fuzziness in search (e.g. Ben give results for Ben and Benjamin).
Consider weighting content types (e.g. Books above events).
5 votesWe missed indexing text from the Page content type, so we added that. The removed the Image content type so images will not dwarf other types of content. We determined that that the search ranking was working as desired and described here.
We’ll tackle integrating fuzziness and spelling/typos into another suggestion/project or two.
If you find that a search result you expect is not as high in the search results as you think it should be, please send an email to info @mountaineers.org with:
(1) URL from the search
(2) URL from the item that you think should be ranked higher in the search
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Add filters to site search GH1877
The main problem with the search is that it returns so many pages of results that excessive paging is required for the search to be very useful. The sort, date, and item type filters do help, but more mechanisms are needed to narrow down the result set: Branch and Activity Type filters, for example.
5 votesWe added Branch and Activity Type field to the Badge, Event and Blog Post items so these items can used as filters in the site search.
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Additional Search Functions: Sorting SD504
for activity listings allow user to sort by destination, leader, availability and allow sorts in ascending or descending order
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Integrate Fuzzy Logic to Text Search GH2837
As a site visitor give when I submit a search with text search terms, give me search results that are "fuzzy" so that I get a better and more comprehensive list of items that meet my search criteria.
By "fuzzy" we're thinking of things like singular vs. plural (e.g. leader vs. leaders) and first names (e.g. Ben vs. Benjamin).
4 votesScheduled ·
AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
responded
Scheduled to be done in our Aug & Sep development cycles.
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Separate Site Search Results for Images SD644
In the site search, place all search results except images in one "tab" and images in another.
We also have a lot of folders, especially ones titled, "Images" and "Resources," so we may want to have "tab" for folders too or rank them low in search results.
This will help rank more important items higher in the search (e.g. a person's profile page above their profile image).
4 votesWe now hide images from search results, because we don;t have enough information about images on our website to do an adequate search.
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Make Rolling Enrollment Courses Easier to Find in Find Courses Faceted Search GH2826
Courses like basic snowshoeing which have multiple sessions are falling to the bottom and are harder to find.
4 votesJun 2018
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Improve the Summary (aka Search Results) View for Files GH1902
Add the Summary field for files that are added to the website in the Summary (aka search results) view (see attached image).
4 votesThis is done. Folders containing file like our comment letters now look much better. Here’s an example: https://www.mountaineers.org/conserve/conservation-position-letters/2016-comment-letters/?_authenticator=8369364da4c80f9b53c6dff605fe2843433d9df2Jul/Aug 2016
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Add MountainQueers to Search
Add MountainQueers as affinity group to green search bar, similar to how we have "Singles", "Families", etc. If possible make this an easier area to update for the future as we look to expand our affinity groups.
3 votesCompleted ·AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
responded
Completed Nov 2022. We update the field's title, help text, and list of choices on the edit form.
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Integrate Spelling/Typo Correction/Suggestion into Text Search GH2953/3738
Add a feature or features that better handles misspellings and typos in text search strings. Two possibilities are: (1) a way to show potential spelling errors or typos like the red squiggly lines under such words, and/or (2) a feature like Google's "Showing results for {your corrected search string}. Search with {your original search string} instead."
3 votesScheduled ·AdminJeff Bowman
(Associate Director of Information Technology, The Mountaineers)
responded
Scheduled to be done in our Aug & Sep development cycles.
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Make tag type-ahead search case insensitive GH2325
Make the type-ahead tag search case insensitive. For example, if you type "Everett" or "everett", the "Everett Branch" tag should be in the results list.
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Optimize Search for Results and Speed SD429
With our large database, we need to balance a robust and complete search result set with search speed. We have fine tuned this as best we can with our current tools and setup. Still some searches are a bit slow and results sets incomplete. To improve this, we need to reconfigure our search application which requires significant technical development.
3 votesThe speed of the type-ahead search fields on edit forms (e.g. adding to roster) is much faster while providing a more complete results set.
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Make it possible to have org wide policies and info pages show higher in search results
Right now its impossible to search for the carpooling page in the general search because people use the word carpooling in everything. It'd be great to be able to mark certain pages and blogs that have important organization wide information to the top of the search.
2 votesThe issue here was that the “Page” content type was not indexed for searches. So this is fixed.
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Search and filter hikes by vertical gain, mileage, and distance using range sliders
Search and filter hikes by vertical gain, mileage, and distance using range sliders, similar to WTA's interface.
...and allow for further filtering of results by geo using map zoom functionality, similar to that of Zillow NOTE: We already have map view, see the comments.
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Make Routes and Places Search Easier
Make Routes and Places search easier to use. When I put in a search, I commonly get back 10 or more pages that take forever to scroll through. Adding words to make the search more specific makes the problem worse. For example, if I search for "Rainier" I get back 4 pages. If I try to be more specific with "Stevens Canyon Ranier", I get back 6 pages including many having nothing to do with "Rainier".
I infer that the underlying logic is to match on ANY of the words I supply. That behavior is unintuitive for those of us…
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Put Instructor Opportunities in with Find Activities SD360
For those of us not required to volunteer for a class, we were more apt to sign up as instructors or for classes when the listings were mixed with activities. We search by date, not necessarily opportunity type.
2 votesWe significantly improved our site-wide search so you may find everything in one search: activities, instructor opportunities, etc. You’ll find the search box in the upper left part of the header on every page in our website. View http://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/7053736-improve-site-wide-search-sd360 fro more information about this improvement.
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Show elevation gain and distance on search page for activities
Might not be applicable for all activity types, but it would be really helpful to see some basic stats for hiking, backpacking, and scrambling without needing to click on each activity. "Difficulty" isn't consistent enough. Technical for scrambling would also be nice. It would also be very helpful to allow filtering by distance/elevation
1 vote
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