[openspending-dev] farmsubsidy.org search funtion

[Stefan Wehrmeyer]

Hi everyone,

I'm happy to announce that the search functionality is back on FarmSubsidy.org.
The search now works on post codes again, normalizes diacritics correctly and – as an added bonus – country faceting is now available in the right column on the search page.
Thanks to Alistair Murdoch for insisting that we get it right.

Cheers
Stefan


On 11.10.2013, at 12:19 , Stefan Wehrmeyer <stefan.wehrmeyer at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi Alistair,
> 
> I'm the developer responsible for FarmSubsidy.org. I'm sorry that this feature broke somehow.
> The problem with fixing is that indexing the whole dataset takes a good amount of time during which search will be mostly offline. Also I can't allocate much time to the project.
> 
> Could you give examples of a search that worked before and doesn't now?
> 
> Cheers
> Stefan
> 
> On 11.10.2013, at 01:43 , "Alistair Murdoch" <al_murdoch at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Good evening
>> 
>> A few months ago I used the farm subsidy.org website and it was easy to search by place names or the postcode.  Then this functionality has stopped.  I contacted openspending and they said that I should direct my query to the developers. So I’m asking you if you could fix the problem. You used to be able to enter a postcode or place name but now that functionality is defunct which has stopped me in my tracks.
>> 
>> Please could you fix this.
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
>> Al
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