Basic search - what users can expect

A description of the basic search behavior in this version of Reference Implementation.

Each search result displays
2 links, one to the topic and another to the publication in which the search query was found. Select a link to view. Known Issue: After selecting the link to the publication and viewing the publication, you cannot navigate back to the search results page.
The content of the topic. Only the first part is initially displayed, in the search results, but you can view the entire content by selecting that text. This content is shown as text and is not formatted.
Search query
UI language- this determines the search query language. So if the UI language is Dutch, then all Dutch content (with source language code NL) will be searched. Keep in mind that if the source language is a region-specific code such as Belgian Dutch (nl-BE), then this content will only be found if the UI language matches exactly. The default UI languages provided matches to 2-character codes. The default languages are Dutch, English, German, Chinese and Japanese that match to source identified with nl, en, de, ch, and jp respectively.
Publication vs entire site- if the query is made from within a publication the search is only performed across the topics in that particular publication, otherwise across all content in the web site.
No advanced search features- we plan add advance search feature such as faceted search in future versions.
The search query- it retains your last search query, but does not have a history and does not provide suggestions as you type.
Search results page
We display the first ten results initially, and the user can select Load more results. Each time Load more results is selected, 10 more results are loaded and added to the list of results displayed.
As this is a basic implementation, there is no visual indicator of where you are when scrolling the results. This might be an issue for a very large set of results. For example the results are not numbered, and there is no scrolling indicator.
We currently only provide results in the language selected. In future for non-English searches we'd also add, with lower priority, the results from English.