Formatted Script Search Results, Corrected (again!)

Posted on | by snhackery

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
— Scott Adams

In my haste to release my enhanced search tool that I tweaked to search both Script and HTML, I neglected to hunt down all of the places where I used the word Script and fix it up so that it would only say Script when we were searching Script and say HTML when we were searching HTML. I was aware that I had missed that on the button at the time that I published the Update Set, as you could easily see the problem right there on the image that I posted.

The title says HTML, but the button still says Search Scripts

But it turns out that I also had the same problem with the message that comes out if you don’t find anything, and with the help text above the entry field (although, that one I did try to make generic so that it would apply to both). I hate to release a new version just for a couple of bad labels, but it bugs me that it isn’t right, so I wanted to tidy that up and make it right.

To fix it, I swapped my title variable with a more generic label variable and then used that label to build the page title, the button text, and a number of different message. Now everything said Script when we were dealing with script and HTML when we were dealing with HTML. Still, that little change was hardly worth a new version, so I decided to add a couple of features that I thought were missing earlier. I added a count of records above the search results table, and I also sorted the table, since it seemed to be coming out in a quite random fashion. Still minor improvements, but now we had more of a combo Correction/Enhancement release that both fixed a couple of issues and also added a couple of new features.

Search results with consistent labels, row counter, and sorted output

While testing all of that out, I actually uncovered a couple of other minor issues as well, which I also corrected, so this one is actually much improved over the last. I won’t waste space here going into all of the details, but here is the new Update Set, and if you are really interested, you can just do a compare against the last one.

2 thoughts on “Formatted Script Search Results, Corrected (again!)”

  • Jace Benson says:

    I know I’m late to your creation of this tool. I also wrote something similar. My question is, have you considered using the oob code search apis to do the searches. They are very fast and configurable.

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