I learned about VisualSearch today when I listened to The Javascript Show podcast.
I started using it for some backend work. However, I did not like the fact that as soon as you completed a facet, it did the search automatically. Don’t get me wrong, it is great for the way DocumentCloud is using it. Very ajax responsive, but for what I am trying to do, I needed that to stop.
I changed it so that I could pass autosearch: false as a parameter to VisualSearch. Now it will only search after hitting enter.
--- visualsearch.js 2011-08-04 13:16:46.000000000 -0400
+++ visualsearch.js 2011-08-04 13:23:21.000000000 -0400
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
var defaults = {
container : '',
query : '',
+ autosearch : true,
unquotable : [],
callbacks : {
search : $.noop,
@@ -543,7 +544,9 @@
var originalValue = this.model.get('value');
this.set(ui.item.value);
if (originalValue != ui.item.value || this.box.val() != ui.item.value) {
- this.search(e);
+ if (this.options.app.options.autosearch) {
+ this.search(e);
+ }
}
return false;
}, this)