Mailing List Archive: searching and site context

On Oct 2, 2009, at 9:08 AM, Paul Orrock wrote:

> What is the expected behaviour of a simple story search if you have
> a site selected from the drop down at the top right ? I think it
> should be to search only within your current site, since if you want
> all sites you can use the advanced search.

It depends on the setting of the Filter by Site Context preference.

> Perhaps this behaviour could be made dependent on
> ALLOW_ALL_SITES_CX, since if you have that set to no, then you are
> very unlikely to want stuff from both sites appearing at the same
> time.

Users often want to search all sites for related stories and such. You
can't check out a story in one site into a workflow for a different
site, though, IIRC. But again, this is what the Filter by Site Context
preference controls for.

HTH,

David