Saved search queries

[flamby]

Hi,

First of all, kudos, this app fills a gap in django admin UX.

It would be nice to have a save query button, and a select menu in the search bar to re-use them.

Keep the good work!

[stebunovd]

Hi!

thanks, I'm glad you liked it.

as for Save query button - that might be interesting, I even briefly thought about this. Any ideas what UI part may look like? I suppose it should be pluggable into any admin configurations, both with and without list_filter, and play nicely with it.

[flamby]

there is this tool I'm using which use this UI pattern for that idea :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/35wejrng3z6u3yv/Capture%20d%27%C3%A9cran%202017-04-07%2014.14.50.png?dl=0

but i guess you'll have to rewrite the widget, maybe not that easy.

[stebunovd]

thanks - just a quick question to make sure that I correctly understand your idea - ⭐️ icon should be placed in the input field on the right, and it should bring a popup with saved queries - correct?

If yes, where would you recommend to place it when the input is growing? Maybe this feature is not obviously visible to users, so I'll explain a little bit. DjangoQL input is not just a regular input, it's a textarea that adjusts its height automatically when users enter a lot of text. That was done to have search query always visible without scrolling, even if its really long. I've tested it on real use cases that we have in our company, and 1 line doesn't seem to be enough for all cases, that's why auto-resize feature was added. So - taken the fact that the search input could adjust its height, where would you suggest to place a ⭐️ icon? Top? Bottom? Middle? Outside of input?

Another side of the problem that I think about - which functionality do we want to support for search queries? Off the top of my head:

1. Save current query;
2. Discover list of saved queries and pick a query from that list;
3. If current query is a saved query, have a clear indication of which saved query is currently applied;
4. If saved query has been selected and after that search query was modified manually... Well, this should probably somehow affect indication of currently applied query;
5. Rename and delete saved queries;
6. Two modes of saved queries: Personal (for current user only) and Shared (for all users)

Am I missing something?

[flamby]

Perhaps a more simpler approach would be to have the star icon separated from the input field, placed as a select button w/ dropdown for list of saved queries and a search engine at the top based on query label (if you want to add one) and the query itself, and on all queries of the list, a delete button on the right, that's simple. the dropdown could be scrollable to keep a short height, and the search engine would keep it very convenient.

It would address 1/ 2/ 5/
renaming is just a matter of selecting previous query, deleting it, and adding the modified one.

6/ is probably more complex

[stebunovd]

I think replacing "rename" with add/delete could work, this is probably not a frequent action.

What about 3/ and 6/? I suppose that shared search queries could be useful for less experienced users, so ability to share a query and a clear indication of current applied query should be important..

[flamby]

yes, 3/ and 6/ are great too.