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Search system
From Elxis Official Documentation
Elxis search system is consisted by component Search and a number of search bots. These are called searchbots.
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How search works on elxis
Each bot performs the search on the area on which it is responsible for. For example the searchbot Weblinks searches the web links, the searchbot Content search the elxis' content items and autonomous pages. To provide search on more areas, like on third party components, you have to install additional Bots. Component Search gathers all results returned by the searchbots and displays the results to the user that initialized the search. Up to Elxis 2009.0 there was no pagination support and no global ordering. The results were being displayed all in the same page ordered by the searchbots. So, there was no global ordering of the results. On Elxis 2009.1 or newer component search re-orders the results returned by the bots giving the results a global ordering. It also provides pagination and better html mark-up.
How to configure component Search
On Elxis administration you will not find a link to edit/setup component search as this component does not have a back-end section. The parameters for the search component are set via the menu item that links to the search page. So, to edit the search component parameters navigate to menus -> your menu (f.e. mainmenu) and click on the menu item that links on the search page.
Search menu item parameters
On the menu item edit page there are some parameters that control the menu appearance and the page title. On Elxis 2009.1 some more parameters were added to handle the pagination of the search results and the layout of the search page.
- pagination limit Controls how many results to be displayed per page (default value is 10).
- pagination position Controls where the pagination links to be displayed. Valid options are: Top (above search results), Bottom (bellow search results) and Both (above AND bellow search results).
- Search footer Controls if the search footer will be displayed or not. The search footer contains a search summary and links to continue searching on Google, Yahoo and Wikipedia.
Search results page preview
Ignore words deprecated
| On Elxis 2009.1, or newer, the search is triggered only for keywords of 4 characters length or greater. The ignore words set by the language files (f.e. language/english/english.ignore.php) are not taken under consideration any more and therefore can be safely deleted from the language packages. |
