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Old 07-09-2007, 03:10 AM
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Originally posted by xja
btw, quant, thanks for the idea about a tree-like view in search results. what you describe would be similar to what I just described above... ie, every item in the tree would have to pass the filter criteria. I think it would need to work like I described though otherwise you could have some items that match the filter whose parents don't. How would they be depicted in a hierarchy if their parents are not? Would be a little confusing I think.
if the parent doesn't match the filter, I'd think that it shouldn't be in the results (case of C3 in the example), that's the main point of filtering.
It could be in the setting, that the tree structure itself should take priority, (ie. say keeping parent present even if it doesn't pass the result).
Probably only those that used it in another application could say which one is better for their needs
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