Have a bit of a difficult question which as far as I can see, no one has really managed to fix yet.
Here's the scenario. Sharepoint 2010 EnterPrise Search Centre.
I've created a custom Search Results Page. I want people who type any word in the Search box to only display results where the Value provided by the user matches with a specific Managed Search Property.
Now I know a user can search for People with specific criteria by entering for example
Continent:Europe in the actual Search Box. Sharepoint will refresh the page with the following added to the Query String: k=Continent:Europe and the results will only show people who are from Europe.
So my question is : How can I fix this so that the user does not have to enter the Continent:Europe in the Search box and can just type Europe?
Thanks
One option is to create your own webpart that acts as the search box and replaces the standard one with your custom search box. The advantage of this is that you can more tightly control the user interface and then set up the query passed to the server (with the "k" parameter). You could prepend "Continent:" before the search term entered to help narrow the search.
Another use for this is to append * onto any search term because the People search does include partial words by default.
We did this on one site to simplify the input and allow users to search with one text box (without the advanced features) and then users can use the refinements to narrow the search.
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Does Drupal provides interchanged/partial word search for example: If i'm searching for "search term" should also return search result says that "term search".
Actually there's a quick way to set this up with the Search API and the Search API Database Search modules. No need for Solr.
Enable both the modules and go to the Search API configuration page
(admin/config/search/search_api)
Add a server and give it a recognizable name (such as "MySQL"), make sure it's enabled
Choose the following service class: Database service (normally the only option. If you don't see it, make sure that the "Search API Database Search" module is enabled).
Selecting this service class will provide you the option Search on parts of a word (make sure you enable it). Now hit "Create server". Next, go back to the Search API configuration page, and add an index. Again give it a recognizable name, such as "Contentindex", and make sure it's enabled.
Select the server you recently created (in this example "MySQL"). Datasource options: check the content types you want to index (the description of this field may be a bit confusing, but make no mistake: you should check the content types you want to index, not the ones you want to leave out).
You could check "Index items immediately", but that depends on the size of your content. This option is alright for smaller websites. In the other case: let cron take care of it. Hit "Create index".
Next, you want to enable the fields (in the fields tab) to that very index, e.g.: contant type, title, status and author - and hit "Save changes" (we'll take care of the related fields later).
Then you want to configure the filters (in the filter tab). Here you can enable the bundle filter, if you want to finetune the content types once again (probably won't need to).
Down below you'll find the highlight filter, to highlight the search word in the results.
Now return to the fields tab and unfold the "Add related fields" tab. Add all the fields of which you want to get the content indexed, and hit Save Finally go to the "view" tab of the index, and index now all the items.
The last step is to create search results page and search block in Views, which only takes a few minutes.
Make sure the submodule Search Views is enabled and create a view page which will show "Contentindex" (select the name you gave to your index configuration instead of "content" which is selected by default.
Add all the fields (make sure your format is "fields") that every search result should consist of (title [link to content], body, …).
You'll notice that these fields look like this Indexed Node: Title
Add an exposed filter: Search: Fulltext search; and select the following in its settings: Contains any of these words, and use as: Search keys.
You're done!
There's an excellent video tutorial on this partial search method without Solr, which also incorporates faceted search (which is not necessary for partial search, but in case you're interested…). If you're only looking for a partial search option, you can watch the video until 5:08 and after that skip to 6:45.
Reference:
https://www.drupal.org/node/84631
I have a requirement from a client to modify the treelistex field to include a search box on top of the left content tree list box. This will allow searching of items instead of the user having to click through the content tree. This Sitecore installation has pages numbering in the thousands hence clicking through takes time and knowing where the page item exists.
How can I achieve this functionality? I will use the _system Lucene index from Sitecore to search the various items. The items need to be search based on item name, title field, content field and date fields.
Thanks
Interestingly, something just like this was posted to Shared Source the other day! Check out the Specialized Treelist from Shared Source.
Search using the built in Sitecore Lucene indexes
I'm sure this is something simple for which I just haven't found the documentation:
I have a website with a member directory. All of the member data is stored in a members channel, which uses a variety of custom fields – some of which are part of the P&T Field Pack.
I use a Safecracker form to enter the data, and it renders the custom fields beautifully:
What I want is essentially the same form, but have it perform a search, instead of enter the field data.
I've scoured the Search Module documentation, but can't find information on how to search individual fields, let alone how to render them. I've also searched the Safecracker documentation for how to configure it to search (the ideal solution).
How do I do this?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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EE's search module won't do what you want - it's more of a general search tool, and its "Advanced search" form is less about custom fields and more about things like channels and categories.
You want to look at Solspace's Super Search. It's much more powerful, and will allow you to do exactly what you want in terms of your query - though you will have to build the form manually (i.e., you won't get the SafeCracker-style simplicity of using {field:field_name} to have your form fields output for you).
I would also recommend checking out SuperSearch.
I've two search box webparts in a same page targeted to different audiences. I want to configure the search boxes to seach a specific search scopes which I've created.
Any ideas how to do that?
Typically the search box points to the page with the desired search results web part. That is a problem if you want both search boxes to point to the same page. You might look at using web part connections and have 2 pairs of web parts - search box and results "A" and "B" where the "A" pair uses a connection to define the link. Then the result part "A" would select the desired scope and/or audience and so forth.
I've created a custom search control which redirects to the search page. I've passed all the necessary details such as keyword, scope etc in the URL.
I have setup a search scope for the current members of a website (a "Phone book" type of search). It is setup to automatically suggest limiting search results by people's jobtitles, adding something like "jobtitle:Manager" to the search query.
For single words ("Manager", "Supervisor", etc.) this works fine, but as soon as the title contains more than one word ("Managing Supervisor"), it returns zero search results. My gut feeling is that it's because when the url is entered as jobtitle:Managing Supervisor, it limits results by jobtitle = Managing, and then Supervisor simply becomes a generic search term.
I tried testing with manually added quotation marks, jobtitle:"Supervising Manager", but they are removed when I land on the search page and the effects are the same.
Is there any way to allow limiting of search results by fields with multiple words?
This is running SharePoint 2007.
Did you try adding a + between the words?