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Search

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If you can't find results that you think should appear, first check the search mode.

Overview

If the search feature is enabled and you assign the search box module to the left or right side bar, you will see a search box where that you can use to search content in Tiki. The search box module will display a select box allowing you to search for something in a specific content :

Entire site : sum of all fields below
Wiki Pages : page name, description, data
Directory : name, description
Articles : title, heading, body
Image Galleries : name, description
Images : name, description
File Galleries : name, description
Files : name, description, search_data (data produced by the converter))
Forums : forum posts title and content (name and description with tiki search)
Blogs : title, description (and user with tiki search)
Blog posts : title, data (and user with tiki search)
FAQs : title, description
FAQs questions : question, answer
Comments : title, data (and summary for tiki search)

Once you select an option and click the search button you will be redirected to the searchresults page :

In this screen you will see a list of results for the search. The links below the title can be used to search in different areas of Tiki the same way as the search module does. If there are a lot of results you will see links to the next/prev pages at the bottom. The number of items where the search criteria was found can be located just below the links to search different features.

This integrated search engine is very useful to quick-find content or information in Tiki and it will automatically detect which features/sections are enabled or disabled allowing the search only in enabled features. If the Wiki is disabled, for example, you won't be able to find things in Wiki pages.

Search modes

If you want, you can enable full-text search. With this option your results will be ordered according to their relevance to the search terms.

The search can be configured by the administrator as a simple search or as a full text search. (A user knows it is a full text search because each result has a relevance indicator)

Simple search

If the administrator has not activated the "full-text" feature, the search is done in a very simple way.
Each query is split into words (a word is recognized as delimitated by space). An object will be returned only if it contains each string word.
Example: If the query is "full text", only the object that contains "full" and that contains "text" will be returned.
Be careful that it is not "contains the word" but contains the string; it means that an object with "fulltext" will be returned, as an object with "faithfully textual" or "carefull texture".
Be also careful that an object has some hidden text like the links. So, an object that contains "http://fulltext/|Mysite" is selected.
The search is performed in case-insensitive fashion. It means that if you look for "tiki", you will find objects than contain the word "Tiki" and not "tiki".
Advantages:

quick
pick up everything that is indexed (see the section describing the search space)

Disadvantages:

The search is very noisy: a lot of objects are returned
There is no relevance and the objects are not sorted. It means that an object with 2 occurrences of the searched word will be returned as an object with only 1 occurrence.
the word is exactly seached, it means "cliche" will not find "cliché"

Full text search

Tiki:FullTextSearch

Word highlighting

In v1.9 there is a new searchbox (search_new) and results page (tiki-searchindex.php) that together provide highlighting of search words. Additionally, by adding "&highlight=''words''", where ''words'' are the words you want to highlight, to the end of the URL (web address) for any wiki page, the words will be highlighted in the page.

Word highlighting from referals

In v1.9 there is an experimental feature that automatically highlighs search words when one follows a link from a search engine. Fore more information, please see Referer Search Highlighting and Tiki:SearchDev.

Try it out

Use the search module (search_box) or get directly to the Search results page.
In v1.9, use the highlighting search module (search_new) or get directly to the Search index page.
View this page with the word ''highlight'' highlighted: http://doc.tikiwiki.org/Search?highlight=highlight

Notes

For more information

Tiki:SearchDev

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Sat 28 Sep, 2024 03:58 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte	30
Sat 28 Sep, 2024 03:58 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte There are no longer two searches	29
Wed 18 Oct, 2017 09:23 GMT-0000 Xavier de Pedro	28
Wed 18 Oct, 2017 09:22 GMT-0000 Xavier de Pedro	27
Mon 11 Sep, 2017 17:15 GMT-0000 Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist	26
Mon 11 Sep, 2017 16:54 GMT-0000 Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist better icon	25
Tue 16 Aug, 2016 17:07 GMT-0000 Jonny Bradley	24
Mon 07 Jul, 2014 21:35 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte	23
Wed 28 Aug, 2013 16:27 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte	22
Sun 03 Feb, 2013 16:59 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte	21
Sun 24 Jun, 2012 19:29 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte	20
Sun 15 Apr, 2012 00:52 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte obsolete page	19
Tue 28 Jun, 2011 16:39 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte	18
Tue 28 Jun, 2011 16:36 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte That note was made redundant	17
Tue 28 Jun, 2011 16:33 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte	16
Tue 28 Jun, 2011 16:32 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte	15
Thu 17 Mar, 2011 23:32 GMT-0000 Brian Merritt	13
Thu 17 Mar, 2011 23:26 GMT-0000 Brian Merritt Tiki 6.x Document Refresh	12
Thu 17 Mar, 2011 23:12 GMT-0000 Brian Merritt	11
Wed 04 Jul, 2007 19:50 GMT-0000 Xavier de Pedro	10
Wed 04 Jul, 2007 19:45 GMT-0000 Xavier de Pedro	9
Fri 31 Mar, 2006 22:55 GMT-0000 Xavier de Pedro getting spam out of here...	8
Mon 27 Mar, 2006 15:56 GMT-0000 Some grammatical corrections	7
Mon 14 Nov, 2005 17:12 GMT-0000	6
Thu 09 Jun, 2005 09:21 GMT-0000 Michael Davey	5
Thu 02 Jun, 2005 16:39 GMT-0000 sylvie	4
Wed 06 Apr, 2005 15:11 GMT-0000 heikohaller screenshots added	3
Sat 22 Nov, 2003 16:18 GMT-0000 system created from stucture	2

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