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- Lesson 1.2: The built-in search engine (Updated, Markdown page)
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Learners explain how the built-in engine eZSearchEngine stores words in the database, how it matches words and phrases, and which shipped limits shape every search. 30 minutes. - Lesson 1.1: Where people search in Exponential (Updated, Markdown page)
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Learners name every place an Exponential installation offers a search, who uses each one, and which rules decide what a search may return. 25 minutes. - Module 2: Indexing (Updated, Markdown page)
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The second module of the Search course, indexing at publish, delayed indexing with the indexcontent cronjob, rebuilding the whole index, and choosing searchable attributes. Four lessons, 2 hours. - Lesson 2.4: Choosing searchable attributes (Updated, Markdown page)
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Learners read which attributes of a class are searchable, decide which ones should be, change one on their training installation and rebuild the index so the change takes effect. 30 minutes. - Lesson 2.2: Delayed indexing and the indexcontent cronjob (Updated, Markdown page)
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Learners switch on delayed indexing on their training installation, watch published content wait in the queue, and index it by running the global cronjob part, from the shell and from Setup > Cronjobs. 35 minutes. - Lesson 2.1: Indexing at publish (Updated, Markdown page)
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Learners follow what happens to the search index when content is published, edited, hidden, moved or trashed, and prove it with searches on their training installation. 25 minutes. - Lesson 2.3: Rebuilding the search index (Updated, Markdown page)
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Learners decide when the whole search index must be rebuilt, run bin/php/updatesearchindex.php with and without --clean on their training installation, and read its output and audit entry. 30 minutes. - Module 3: Searching in practice (Updated, Markdown page)
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The third module of the Search course, the admin search and the advanced search, the content finder, the site search for visitors, and search statistics. Four lessons, 2 hours. - Lesson 3.4: Search statistics (Updated, Markdown page)
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Learners switch on search statistics for the public siteaccess of their training installation, read Setup > Search statistics, turn phrases that found nothing into content work, and weigh the personal data the phrases… - Lesson 3.3: Site search for visitors (Updated, Markdown page)
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Learners test the public site's search as a visitor, control it through the address parameters SearchText, SubTreeArray and SearchPageLimit, explain how PathPrefix limits it to one site, and name the template that shows… - Lesson 3.1: The admin search and the advanced search (Updated, Markdown page)
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Learners use the administration's quick search with its scope, read the results page, and narrow a search with the advanced search by phrase, class, class attribute, section and publication date. 30 minutes. - Lesson 3.2: The content finder (Updated, Markdown page)
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Learners find content by object id, node id, remote id, URL alias, page address or file path with Setup > Content finder, read a result's versions, locations and trash entries, and know who may use it. 30 minutes. - Module 4: Solr and ezfind (Updated, Markdown page)
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The fourth module of the Search course, installing ezfind and a Solr server, exp:solr and the Solr settings, indexing with Solr, and relevance, elevation and facets. Four lessons, 2 hours 10 minutes. - Lesson 4.2: exp:solr and the Solr settings (Updated, Markdown page)
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Learners tell the kernel's [SolrSettings] block from ezfind's [SolrBase] block in solr.ini, configure a running Solr with Url, and check it with exp:solr status and ping, as a monitoring check would. 30 minutes. - Lesson 4.3: Indexing with Solr (Updated, Markdown page)
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Learners build the Solr index with the extension's updatesearchindexsolr.php, explain commits, the optimize and subtree cronjob parts, and why moves and visibility changes reach Solr, and keep the index in step with the… - Lesson 4.1: Installing ezfind and a Solr server (Updated, Markdown page)
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Learners add the ezfind extension to their training installation with Composer, activate it, create its table, start the Solr server the extension ships, and confirm that the site search now runs on ezsolr. 35 minutes. - Lesson 4.4: Relevance, elevation and facets (Updated, Markdown page)
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Learners tune what comes first in Solr results with index-time boosts, query boosts and elevation of chosen objects, exclude classes from the index, and see what highlighting, spell checking and facets offer. 35 minutes. - Module 5: Tuning and troubleshooting (Updated, Markdown page)
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The fifth module of the Search course, tuning the search settings, search and languages, a checklist for missing results, and measuring search performance. Four lessons, 2 hours. - Lesson 5.2: Search and languages (Updated, Markdown page)
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Learners explain how a translated object is indexed and which translations a siteaccess's search lists, test a search in two languages on their training installation, and name ezfind's language settings. 25 minutes. - Lesson 5.4: Search performance and capacity (Updated, Markdown page)
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Learners measure the speed of the search page with exp:benchmark, compare it before and after a settings change, and name the levers that keep search fast as a site grows, from limits and delayed indexing to Solr. 30…
