Date filtered searches

[mikesname]

• Make it an in string parameter instead of a facet
• Make it a facet (Optional)

Need to allow filtering search by date period for doc units and authorities. This requires some changes to the index helper to output the Solr doc data for date periods.

Then we need to find the best way to query by date range.

[mikesname]

Implemented (in e8f2ca5) a facet extractor which converts the param of the form dates=1900-1940 into the appropriate query facet and applies it automatically. The param value must be of the form YEAR-YEAR, but either start and end year can be omitted, so that -1940 means "before 1940" and 1940- means "after 1940". All we need now is a UI to be able to send the parameter in that form.

[mikesname]

@PonteIneptique do you fancy having a look at the UI for this now?

[PonteIneptique]

Mind if I postpone it a little ? Like tomorrow ?

[mikesname]

Heh, of course! I meant "now" as in "from this point on" ;)

[PonteIneptique]

Duplicate of #128

[mikesname]

Re-opening. This is a separate issue from the admin date entry.

[PonteIneptique]

Oh. I thought it was both for Portal...

[mikesname]

I added a new admin tag 👍

[PonteIneptique]

Hmm, the list of facet is controller generated. Where can I find utils.search.ItemPage[(DocumentaryUnit,utils.search.SearchHit)] and add the date ?

[PonteIneptique]

I tried to add it myself but I come to have much more difficulties than expected.
Could you configure the controller/view so I have dates filter input enabled by default, even if there is no val ?

[mikesname]

Not quite sure I understand this. Lets talk about it to confirm we're thinking about the same thing.

[PonteIneptique]

Maybe it is time to get this thing working :)

[PonteIneptique]

Make it an in string parameter instead of a facet

[PonteIneptique]

@8befb71 resolve this issue. Need to check whether the actual UI pleases or not