Director's Blog

Updated Search Interface - coming soon!

October 20, 2008 12:00 PM | by Renee McKechnie, Web Engineer

We're in the midst of improving the enterprise search interface (www.ohsu.edu/search) - just a few minor things to make it more usable:

Ability to apply/retain mission color formatting depending on where the site is launched from
Adding icons to indicate document types, like PDF, Word, etc instead of the words following the title
Dynamically displaying and hiding the right column so it never shows up empty
And my favorite, "type ahead" search, so Endeca will make suggestions for searches as you type

Brenna Harris is my hero for identifying the cause of an IE bug that was holding up development. Who knew that comments before the doctype declaration will convert the page to quirks mode? Not me. I do now. Can I have those four frustrating troubleshooting hours back please? If you're curious, the complete explanation can be found here: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/doctypesniffing

I'm hoping to launch the new interface mid-December. Feel free to email me with any requests or suggestions.

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