Advanced queries: rant

[alex0]

@fegfeg

how good the query builder UX is

Check my concept:

Query Builder UX Concepts

Hi all, this is a mockup inspired by indented lists: the relation between lines is considered “AND” the first dropdown menu lists options like “Property, Reference, Parent page, OR and NOT” the next dropdown menus display different options, for example if the filter is “Property” the second menu lists property keys and the third menu lists values special options like “See below” or “OR” are meant to be used with indented lines the special option “Range” introduces two more dropdown menus [I…

@fegfeg

And having all those different input methods (simple queries, advanced queries and query builder)

To my understanding, the Query Builder will be a graphical way to edit an Advanced Query.

@fegfeg

Does the query builder do everything the advanced queries do?

Everything it’s impossible since an Advanced Query is based to a very powerful and expressive query language, it can take advantage of Clojure functions, transform results and style them with Hiccup/HTML. But I think it is supposed to be much more powerful than Simple Queries.

For now learn Simple Queries and ask for help with Advanced Queries, someone more proficient could write one for you and you can learn how to tweak it. Properly learning Advanced Queries is comparable to learning a programming language.

I don’t think a graphical Query Builder and a ML-powered natural language converter are too far into the future, hopefully some months. I tried to ask ChatGPT for Simple Queries and it worked very well.