confusion between Index and SearchableTextIndex #37
Description
User problem
from https://community.plone.org/t/how-to-using-own-fields-in-live-search/2307/4
its not clear to users the difference between an SearchableText index and other indexes. This is probably caused by a few things
- The word index is used for search engines like google to index a whole document, not an individual field. As in the verb to index, rather than the noun. We should perhaps be using a more specific term. ie, "yes I want to index my new content type, thats obviously how I get it searchable".
- field index is probably an advanced usecase but including all of the fields in the searchabletext is likely a more common usecase. We don't offer a UI for this so users are going to assume Index is the thing they want.
- anyone used to an SQL system would think of accessing items by field values as something to do with a query. indexes are just an optimisation to make that faster so an advanced concept. Plone is abnormal that it requires an index to make that query possible.
Options
Queryable and Searchable
perhaps we could have an UI where you can enable a field to be either:
- query-able
- searchable
- query-able and searchable