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 Author: calsbricks View Messages Posted By calsbricks
 Posted: Sep 26, 2012 01:50
 Subject: Improving search within catalogue
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 Topic: Suggestions
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calsbricks (8514)

Location:  United Kingdom, England
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Currently when you search the catalogue for a particular piece, you can choose
the category e.g. Brick Decorated and then when that result returns, you can
choose to refine that by saying 3009*, for example. This would then show you
all the 3009 decorated bricks.

A suggested improvement to this would be to add another level of search within
the results such as 3009* with the string 'Police' or 'Taxi'. This would narrow
the search down considerably and save lots of time for those of us who work our
way through many kilos of unsorted pieces.

As the catalogue is based on a SQL database, to add this level is simply adding
a further 'where' condition.

Anybody else agree?
 Author: leovaliant View Messages Posted By leovaliant
 Posted: Sep 26, 2012 02:03
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 Author: therobo View Messages Posted By therobo
 Posted: Sep 26, 2012 03:07
 Subject: Re: Improving search within catalogue
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therobo (9693)

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In Suggestions, billduge writes:
  Currently when you search the catalogue for a particular piece, you can choose
the category e.g. Brick Decorated and then when that result returns, you can
choose to refine that by saying 3009*, for example. This would then show you
all the 3009 decorated bricks.

A suggested improvement to this would be to add another level of search within
the results such as 3009* with the string 'Police' or 'Taxi'. This would narrow
the search down considerably and save lots of time for those of us who work our
way through many kilos of unsorted pieces.

As the catalogue is based on a SQL database, to add this level is simply adding
a further 'where' condition.

Anybody else agree?

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?q=1%20x%206%20police