pcplantdb

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Stephanie Gerson wrote:

> CHAD WRITES:
> There are a number of different kinds of searches that are currently
> unused by the existing site.  They include search by name specifically
> and a botanical family search.  I have also fantasized about a search
> form that would be something like "I'm looking for a (pull down box
> with things like plant, tree, shrub, vine, critter, etc) that is (pull
> down box of various properties) and ....
>
> There are also a lot of preferences that can be set including
> summarized/tabled search results (default is summarized), number of
> results per page (default 10, max 100), score threshold, and some
> different report types.  This would be a cookie based... but
> configured from a static page.
>
> SEE *THIS* IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT WHEN I REFER TO UI.

This makes perfect sense. I can see that the border between Job 1 and 2 are 
blurred
in that the UI/refined search form, to include such things as Rich's canned 
search routines,
 seems more a basic part of Job 1. I was thinking of GBI's and similar 
advanced UI's
as the essence of Job 2.

> I'LL RESPOND IN BETTER DETAIL TO THIS EARLY NEXT YEAR, DO SOME 
> STORYBOARDING AND SCRIPTING WHILE TRAVELING...

Could someone explain what storyboarding and scripting is about in this 
context?

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