= Adding a Remote Search Form and Putting All Search Forms on Tabs =

|| '''Date''' || 2010/10/25 ||
|| '''Contact(s)''' || List of author(s). ||
|| '''Last edited''' || ||
|| '''Status''' || draft, in progress, near complete ||
|| '''Assigned to release''' || Release number, to be determined ||
|| '''Resources''' || Available ||

== Overview ==

GeoNetwork has long had Z3950 support but the remote search form was dropped with the introduction of 2.2 - probably because the Z3950 implementation was old and because 'Remote Search' didn't seem to fit in the new observer layout being used for minimaps etc. This proposal will add the remote search form back into the GeoNetwork interface (under the heading 'Distributed Search' as both the local node and remote nodes can be searched in the remote search form). To properly support the addition of this search form, it is also proposed to place the 'default' (or simple search) and the advanced search forms on tabs. The tabs can be styled as the user requires but the default styling would look as follows:

[[Image(Screenshot-remote-search-tab.png)]]
   
=== Proposal Type ===
 * '''Type''': GUI Change, Core Change, Module Change, Guideline and project governance procedures, ...
 * '''App''': !GeoNetwork or !Intermap
 * '''Module''': eg. Harvester, Kernel, Data Manager, Metadata Import, Lucene Index, Search Interface ...

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=== Voting History ===
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== Motivations ==
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== Proposal == 
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=== Backwards Compatibility Issues ===

=== New libraries added ===
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== Participants ==
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