Site Wide Search Requirements

I. Introduction

II. Vision Statement

The Site Wide Search (SWS) application provides different methods for a user to locate site content. One such method is to simply enter a key word and return all pages containing this term. A second method allows users to specify the scope of the search. A third method gives users the capability to search for theme related content based on the results of an initial search.

System/Application Overview

• Intermedia - Intermedia.
• Application Interface - API for developers to add content from other applications to the scope of the search.
• Subsite - Functionality to search for contents within a sub-site.
• Query parameters - An admin page to tweak search parameters.

IV. User-Cases

• Case 1 - User enters key words to search the web site to find related content.
• Case 2 - User is within a content area of the site. User has option to search the current content area or the whole site (sub-site).
• Case 3 - User searches a few areas of the site (i.e. bboard and wimpy point) by entering a keyword.
• Case 4 - User searches using exact phases
• Case 5 - User searches using boolean operations (and , or ) between entered key words
• Case 6 - User searches content with creation date of a particular time.
• Case 7 - User wants the search results to display # rows on each page. For example, users who have small screens usually want to display fewer results per page than those who have large screens.
• Case 8 - User selects the option to display results grouped into content areas
• Case 9 - User searches using the combination of methods provided by case 3 to 6 and display options of 7 or 8.
• Case 10 - Admin wants to specify the frequency of resyncing the index. An admin who runs a site with huge network traffic would not want to sync the indexes frequently
• Case 11 - Admin of medical web site wants to load a set of medical themes for the site to improve the search results.
• Case 12 - Admin wants to view statistical reports on searched terms

V. Related Links

VI.A Requirements: Data Model

VI.B Requirements: User-Level Requirements

30.10 User Search Pages

30.10.10 An embedded search widget which allows users to enter search terms and select site content area.

30.10.20 Advance search page

30.10.20.10 Text Box to enter key words

30.10.20.20 Keywords support the * as wild cards

30.10.20.30 An option to select which content areas to include in search

30.10.20.40 An option to select the type of search. The types are search exact or use boolean operators (and,or,not) between search terms.

30.10.20.50 An option to select date ranges for content

30.10.20.60 An option to select subsite

30.10.20.70 Select the number of rows to display per page

30.10.20.80 Group by context area option

30.10.30 Result Page

30.10.30.10 Display the search results

30.10.30.20 Option to show previous and next results

30.10.30.30 Option to select the number of items to display on each page

30.10.30.40 More like this (next to each result item). Other contents with similar themes.

VI.C Requirements: Admin-Level Requirements