[platform-ua-dev] searching dynamic content: two approaches

["Curtis D'Entremont" <curtispd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to get some opinions from the
community about how to proceed on the following issue:

Now that we've added dynamic content
capabilities to user assistance, we are faced with having to support searching
this content. There are two basic approaches we can take, with advantages
and disadvantages to each. I would like to know which one will be most
acceptable to users.

1. Show the results accurately, but
at a potentially significant performance hit (depending on how many documents
you have with dynamic content).
2. Show all potential hits. This means
it will find things in sections that would be filtered if you were to open
the document. There is no performance loss here.

It would be possible to do both approaches,
and allow the user to switch, in which case we would pick a default.

So the basic question is: Which one
is most important for searching, accuracy or speed?

Thanks,
Curtis d'Entremont
Eclipse User Assistance
IBM Toronto Lab

Phone: (905) 413-5754
E-Mail: curtispd@xxxxxxxxxx