Often it would be helpful if search results could be gathered from multiple webs, but shown in a single block of results. Instead of things being grouped by web, everything gets globbed together.

Example:

Results from Codev web retrieved at 02:17 (GMT)

Results from Support web retrieved at 02:17 (GMT)

There should be a flag like nosection="yes" that tells the TWiki not to split the above results into groups for Codev and Support, but one list of the 3 most-recent posts in those webs.

Things could be made more interesting by adding a maxreultsperweb="int" to indicate I don't want more than 2 results from either web.

Thoughts?

-- MikeMaurer - 02 Jun 2002

I agree. I did a shell script to provide this for a "global last changes" pages. You can see it in action on http://koala.ilog.fr/wiki/bin/scripts/lastchanges and its source is in http://koala.ilog.fr/wiki/bin/view/Wiki/WebHome

I do not think my source is a useful staring point. But I can tell you that the functionality is invaluable.

PS: I do not scan all the files to sort them by dates, it can be slow on bit sites, I parse the last 2 log files

-- ColasNahaboo - 03 Jun 2002