[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Search By Common Interest

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Fatima,

Yes this search allows you to search other user's profiles for keywords that they may have entered. The search UI has been adjusted in the latest version which you can see on trunk nightly2.sakaiproject.org.

The search by interest currently only searches the books, tv, movies, quotes and notes fields but is easily adapted:
https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//profile2/trunk/api/src/java/org/sakaiproject/profile2/hbm/SakaiPersonMeta.hbm.xml

You can customise the tool to add more fields relatively easily, or just rename the ones that are currently there.

cheers,
Steve


On 16/01/2012, at 8:46 PM, Fatima Rahiman wrote:

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> In the profile tool there is an option to  search for  other users  by  common interest. I assume that it is this tool, amongst others, which lends to  SAKAI being sold as an important research and collaboration tool since it allows for faculty and students to  connect with others based on similar interests( ideally  research interests) However we can’t seem to  see to which field this connects or maps to as there aren’t any fields in the  profile section which captures  research interests .The fields available for  users to input data are for favourite books, TV shows, Movies or Quotes but  nada for  research interests …which  would seem to be an obvious  field in an LMS purporting to  support research and collaboration…or maybe we just haven’t installed the correct Profile tool??Please advise ..any assistance on this will  be hugely appreciated.
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