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[SearchSettings]

Written by Frederik Holljen, Updated by Graham Brookins
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Setting Summary
AllowEmptySearch Sets if users can search for nothing
DelayedIndexing Sets if new content objects are indexed in the search engine upon publishing or if indexing is done by the cronjob
DelayedIndexingClassList Sets the class identifiers that should be used to delay indexing with.
EnableWildcard Sets if wildcard searching is allowed or not
ExtensionDirectories Tells the system where to look for search engine plugins.
LogSearchStats Sets if search statistics should be saved or not.
MaximumSearchLimit Sets the maximum number of returned hits.
MinCharacterWildcard The minimum number of characters a wildcard can represent
SearchEngine Sets which search engine to use.
SearchViewHandling Sets if searches are handled by the search view or in the template.
StopWordThresholdPercent Sets the percentage of hits that a word should be present in before ignoring the word completely
StopWordThresholdValue Sets the minimum number of objects in the database before the stopword functionality is used.

Changed in Exponential 6.0.15

Settings of this group in the settings files of Exponential 6.0.15 that this page does not describe:

Setting File Default Description
ResultLimit settings/exphelp.ini 20 Results per page (the JSON view takes limit=, at most 50)
TitleBoost settings/exphelp.ini 8 Score weights of a match in the title, a heading and the text
HeadingBoost settings/exphelp.ini 3  
BodyBoost settings/exphelp.ini 1  
PathBoost settings/exphelp.ini 2 ... in the page's path (features/6.0/maintenance-mode.md: "maintenance", "mode") and its front matter keywords
KeywordBoost settings/exphelp.ini 4  
TitleMatchBoost settings/exphelp.ini 1.4 Factor for a page whose title holds every word of the query
TypeBoost settings/exphelp.ini help=1.5; guide=1.3; specification=0.8; changelog=0.45; history=0.6; generated=0.5; catalogue=0.5 Factor per page type (expHelpDocumentIndex types): help pages and guides rank above reference material with the same words, changelogs and history below it
VersionBoost settings/exphelp.ini 3=0.5; 4=0.6; 5=0.75 Factor per major version for pages below a version directory (features/3.8/, bc/4.1/): older releases rank lower
AudienceBoost settings/exphelp.ini trainer=0.6 Factor per audience for the pages that are for it (the lowest when a page has several); not applied while the search is filtered to that audience. The trainers' lessons repeat the subjects of the editor and administrator pages, so they rank below them in a general search and on their own under the Trainers filter.
StopWords settings/exphelp.ini (empty) Words that are not indexed (an empty list keeps the built-in English and German list)
MaxBytesPerRequest settings/logviewer.ini 33554432 The most bytes one search request reads; a search over more continues with "More results" from where it stopped.
TimeLimit settings/logviewer.ini 2000 The longest a search request reads, in milliseconds (also the regular expression's time budget).
MaxResults settings/logviewer.ini 200 The most matching entries one request returns.
MaxPatternLength settings/logviewer.ini 200 The longest search text or regular expression.
BacktrackLimit settings/logviewer.ini 100000 The backtracking limit of a regular expression search (pcre.backtrack_limit while it runs): a pattern that needs more on one line is stopped and reported as too expensive.
Rotations settings/logviewer.ini enabled Search the rotations (.1 .. .N and .gz) of a file too, when the page asks for it.
MaxGzipBytes settings/logviewer.ini 67108864 The most bytes of a compressed rotation one search unpacks.
RequestWindow settings/logviewer.ini 2 The seconds before and after an entry that count as the same request (related lines).
MaximumSearchTextWords settings/site.ini 16 The search views (content/search and content/advancedsearch) search for at most this many words and characters of a search text and cut a longer one; every word is a clause of the search engine's query, and with too many of them the search fails instead of giving results (eZ Find: too many clauses)
MaximumSearchTextLength settings/site.ini 1024  

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