[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Federated search

[thomas.heute@jboss.com]

Working on the federated search, i am wondering how to present the result to the end user.

I was thinking of 2 ways to do a search
- a very simple input field with no other parameter that could sit on top of a portal like there is here on jboss.com
- a search portlet for more complex search (Filter on portlets, specify dates and so on).

To present the results, this is more tricky, what i was thinking is to dynamically add a "Search results" page on the personal dashboard if there is none. Then add a "search results portlet instance" for each search request with the abality for the user to kill a portlet instance and to kill the page.

Once the search results are presented, we need to provide some way to let the user go and see an element of the search result. Providing a link to something in the CMS is trivial but we don't really have a way to provide a link to a portlet.

One thing i can think of right now, is to let the federated search give a Portlet instance reference and render parameters on each result so that we can display that portlet instance on a new temporary page. (There are several problems to that, the portlet instance could be already destroyed for example and we don't have the notion of temporary page)

I could miss the obvious though or anything better, feedback is appreciated from everybody, but please stay on the topic or open another forum thread

Thanks.

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