Ability to filter reports dynamically

[feisley]

Currently the reports allow free text search via the UI. It would also be useful to allow field specific filters for dynamic reports.

A few examples:

browsepeople.action?report=employees&department=QA

browsepeople.action?report=employees&position=Engineer

browsepeople.action?report=employees&position=*Manager

which would match "Product Manager", "Engineering Manager" etc...

[blaubaer]

Good idea. I think this will be no big problem because we already index every field. But the big question is how to provide a UI for that. Only filter over the request parameters are a little bit to few. How it will be with an advanced button right of the search field. If you click on this field a layer appears with all fields.

[feisley]

I like the idea of providing an advanced search that works by field.

My main interest in the URL portion is so from the users profile I can generate links to relevant information. For example, if a user clicks on the "Engineering" department in a profile they will be able to find other users in that department.

Also once we have #8 then we can use that field to link a users reports. i.e. Find all the users who report to "John Smith"