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    • Two questions about searches

    Posted by manutius posts: 12 South Africa

    Hi,

    Is it possible to:

    a) Limit results to the group that the currently logged in person has rights to see. E.g. If group customer does not have rights to see a wiki entry it should no show up in the results.

    b) Can you do boolean searches e.g Windows AND 2000. I've tried +Windows +2000 and it comes back as an OR result.

    Thanks

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    Posted by Damian Parker posts: 2881 United Kingdom

    Hi

    a) Yes if you code it, its something that is badly needed, and on a wishlist

    b) not sure, maybe in 1.8 with the search_new module, but without looking at that code I dont know.


    Damian


    Posted by Russ Wilde posts: 63 United Kingdom

    I'd like to add a couple of wishes to that list;

    Use Direct Pagination links in search results,
    Be able to specify number of results per page,

    At the moment, I do a search for a common word on my site, like "mail" I get "
    Found "mail" in 51 pages

    Then 32 of those 51 results are on the first page,
    followed by

    Page: 1/6 [next]

    Obviousley, clicking next takes me to the next page of results (8 results)

    further clicks of next produce the "No pages matched the search criteria" result, So I'm guessing that Tiki;
    over-counted the search results by 10,
    divided the search reults by the pagination value from somewhere (probably 10 also),
    then listed 32 on the first page and 8 on the second,

    Also I note that most of the search results are in fact the exact same hit on an item 3 times in some cases, (I'm guessing this is because of things like: Hit on a question in ONE FAQ, then hit it on another FAQ, then just hit the question..?)

    I might hazard a guess that the pagination is screwed up because of the multiple hits on the same page (?) I reckon that of the 32 on the first page, about 10 are unique, if that helps any.

    Does the search method need a bit of a shakeup to make it only list unique hits and paginates properly? Or is there something I am missing?

    RW


    Posted by Russ Wilde posts: 63 United Kingdom

    And Another thing..

    When I search for "files" I get the same content back as if I had done a search on "Entire Site" and no file galleries appear to be included.

    Did you know about that?
    shrug why am I bothering you, it's obvious the search needs an overhaul, I'll shut up now.

    RW