Well even without the frontpaged bit there are two pieces of information to search with, possibly three.

Yes, but...

Many topics are covered several times in a week and many monks post dozens of nodes in a week. I'm not suggesting that the node in question couldn't be found otherwise but only that it might be easier to find with the proposed functionality.

The reason I've suggested it, afterall, is because I actually had an experience where such a feature would have been useful had it existed. I'm guessing I'm neither the first monk that could have benefitted from it nor the last that will find himself needing it.

I don't know the actual implementation but I'm guessing that it is just another column in the database as the information is available in both the node status and approval nodelets when viewing the node itself.

As a general philosophy, I think it makes sense to allow information retrieval to be as flexible as possible. Unless there is a reason to intentionally limit specific kinds of searches or significant implementation hurdles, the information should be searchable by any reasonable criteria. If you arbitrarily limit the functionality, reasoning, "that's not really needed," eventually some user will come along and request it. Once one does, it is only a matter of time before others will. Based on that principle, I rather think we should be able to search by the monk that approved the node as well...

Why not?

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Super Search Additions? by sauoq
in thread Super Search Additions? by sauoq

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