FreeLists / dokuwiki / [dokuwiki] Re: search results design suggestion

[Andreas Gohr <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 17:26:38 +0200
Matthias Grimm <matthiasgrimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I gave the new dokuwiki release a try primarily to test the new
> indexed search engine. After trying some search words I was a bit
> puzzled about the search results: Only the first 14 results were
> displayed with a snippet. This number never changed so I thought this
> is not a bug but a feature. A short look in the code confirmed this.
> Nevertheless I needed some time to realize that it was _not_ a bug.

Yes. The snippet creation isn't very efficient speedwise so I restricted
it. If someone could come up with a faster (but UTF-8 aware) method it
would be great.

> It might be usefull to insert an optical break after the snippets (a
> bar, a newline or something similar).

Suggestions and patches welcome.
 
> Another issue that damped my delight was the search index. I moved a
> whole bunch of pages into the new release and wanted to create the
> index at once. I was curious to see the search engine in action :-).
> But to create the search index I need to install a plugin first. This
> was a little bit anoying and I suggest to add this essential plugin to
> the main distribution of dokuwiki.

You don't need the plugin if you can wait ;-) Just browse the pages and
they will be added. However I think adding a script to rebuild the index
would be a good idea. The plugin is useful for people with ACLs enabled.

> Besides this I like the new search engine. Very good work. Thanks to
> all who makes it possible.

:-)

Andi

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