Re: [xwiki-users] Bunch of questions related to search

[Vincent Massol]

Hi there,

On Dec 17, 2009, at 11:08 PM, Milind Kamble wrote:

 I have a few questions related to XWiki's builtin search as well as  
 Lucene search:
 1. In Lucene search, what is the query syntax to search for page  
 name with wild card. For example , if I try '*Page2' (without  
 quotes), there is no hit even on Sandbox.TestPage2. This is almost a  
 very basic user expectation : if the user only remembers partial  
 name of a page of interest, it should be possible to locate the page  
 via the search bar using wildcards. The builtin WebSearch supports  
 this functionality. I prefer to use Lucene as the default search  
 engine (modified global.vm in skins/colibri) because of the ability  
 to search in attachments.

See http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Applications/SearchApplication
which also references this page:
http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Applications/SearchApplicationLuceneSearchQueryHelp

Thanks
-Vincent

 2. Is there any syntax to specify match for an attachment name --  
 either in the builtin or in Lucene engine? Say for example, search  
 for an attachment '*logo*.png' at any page in any space. I  
 understand that this can be achieved via scripting, but it would be  
 great if search box provided this feature.
 3. Does either search engine support search for form field values? I  
 am a newbie to XWiki  (coming from Foswiki) and therefore am still  
 learning the concept of associating forms to pages in XWiki. From an  
 end user perspective, if pages can have forms, there should be a way  
 to search pages based on value of form field(s).

 Thanks,
 Milind

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Re: [xwiki-users] Bunch of questions related to search

[Guillaume Lerouge]

Hi Milind,

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Vincent Massol vinc...@massol.net wrote:

 Hi there,

 On Dec 17, 2009, at 11:08 PM, Milind Kamble wrote:

  I have a few questions related to XWiki's builtin search as well as
  Lucene search:
  1. In Lucene search, what is the query syntax to search for page
  name with wild card. For example , if I try '*Page2' (without
  quotes), there is no hit even on Sandbox.TestPage2. This is almost a
  very basic user expectation : if the user only remembers partial
  name of a page of interest, it should be possible to locate the page
  via the search bar using wildcards. The builtin WebSearch supports
  this functionality. I prefer to use Lucene as the default search
  engine (modified global.vm in skins/colibri) because of the ability
  to search in attachments.

 See http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Applications/SearchApplication
 which also references this page:

 http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Applications/SearchApplicationLuceneSearchQueryHelp

 Thanks
 -Vincent

  2. Is there any syntax to specify match for an attachment name --
  either in the builtin or in Lucene engine? Say for example, search
  for an attachment '*logo*.png' at any page in any space. I
  understand that this can be achieved via scripting, but it would be
  great if search box provided this feature.
  3. Does either search engine support search for form field values? I
  am a newbie to XWiki  (coming from Foswiki) and therefore am still
  learning the concept of associating forms to pages in XWiki. From an
  end user perspective, if pages can have forms, there should be a way
  to search pages based on value of form field(s).


I'd be interested in finding out more about what made you switch from
Foswiki to XWiki. I'd also be happy to know whether there are some features
that you liked in Foswiki but cannot find in XWiki yet.

Thanks in advance for your feedback,

Guillaume


 
  Thanks,
  Milind

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