Keyword selection improvement

Date	2009/08/31
Contact(s)	Mathieu, Francois
Last edited	Timestamp
Status	complete
Assigned to release	2.5.0
Resources	Dev done

Overview

Improved keyword selection when editing metadata. ...

Proposal Type

• Type: Standard support
• App: GeoNetwork
• Module: Editor

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Voting History

• Vote proposed by X on Y, result was +/-n (m non-voting members).

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Proposal

Improve keyword selection from thesaurus in editing mode. This new keyword search interface is much more modular than the current autocompletion list and improve usability and speed up keyword selection process.

It allows editors to:

• do one or more searches in all thesaurus registered in the catalogue.
• select one or more keywords added to the selected items list (using arrows or drag & drop) on the right.
• add the selected keywords directly into metadata, grouping keywords by thesaurus.

The search interface allows editors to choose the maximum number of keywords to returns, and the thesaurus to search into (default is all).

Editing mode

View mode

Details

• The keyword selection popup is based on an Ext.js panel.
• The add action is based on using the _X prefix for element reference to add a fragment of XML to a metadata document (as geo-editor mecanism for GML polygon into bounding polygon element).
• A parameter is defined to set the number of characters to type before search (2 by default)

Participants

• Mathieu
• Pierre Giraud
• Francois
• Supported by BRGM - GéoSource sandbox