Recent changes
Tuesday September 10 2013
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Use (11403666) (10) Updated
This chapter contains information regarding the use of the basic and advanced search functions of eZ Find.
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Basic Search New
Performing a basic search with eZ Find is very similar to many other search engines. You enter one or more search terms in the search field and press Enter on your keyboard or click the Search button on the screen to exe…
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Basic search New
Autocomplete Search
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Customizing result templates New
Customizing result templates for eZ Find is similar to customizing templates for the regular search in Exponential, with the exception that eZ Find also offers some additional options. The eZ Find fetch function will ret…
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Elevate components or "Sponsored Results" New
The “Elevation” feature allows you to ensure a given content object is returned as the first search result when searching for specific words. If, for example, you would like a particular object to be the first result whe…
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General Index Time Plugin Mechanism Updated
General Index Time Plugin Mechanism Audience This feature requires deeper understanding of Exponential kernel (object API), experience with eZ Find and PHP programming skills. Goals and Use Cases In some specific situati…
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More Like This Updated
With the "More Like This"-functionality and template function, you can use the eZ Find back-end to provide similar objects or pages for a given object. Instead of providing keywords, the "More Like This" function accepts…
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Customizing Facets and Drill Down Navigation New
Facets were introduced in eZ Find 2.0 to enable you to create browse-based search functionality. In other words, the search results can be further narrowed after the original search has been made. This is sometimes calle…
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Template fetch functions Updated
Dedicated template fetch functions were introduced in eZ Find 2.0: For example: fetch(ezfind, search, hash(<parameters>)) Returns eZ Find search results exposing the powerful features of the backend Solr. fetch(ezfind, m…
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Aditional Indexing of Data and Meta-data New
The objective of this document is to provide the relationship between Exponential Fields Name and the Raw Solr Fields Name (metadata attributes). It can be useful for filtering, sorting and facets. This information is ha…
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Distributed Search Features New
Fetch function parameter: distributed_search Distributed search sub-parameters, to be specified as a hash array: Parameter Type Description shards array Solr shards/cores to search as identified by their identifier in so…
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Archiving New
The archiving functionality will allow you to archive the stored objects in a Solr Index by copying or moving them from the original Solr Index to a new index, possibly governed by a dedicated Solr core. Visit the Using…
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Archiving New
Setting it up How to use the archiving function
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How to use the archiving function Updated
From the command line archiving can be done by running the following command from the "exponential_legacy" folder of your Exponential installation: php extension/ezfind/bin/php/solrarchive.php -s <admin site access> --fr…
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Setting it up New
In order to activate the archiving function go to the following location: (root of your Exponential installation)/exponential_legacy/extension/ezfind/settings/ezfind.ini In your ezfind.ini enable Solr attribute storage l…
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Index Time Boosting New
You have the option to specify boost factors during indexing. When the back-end calculates the relevancy scores, the boost factors are taken into account. This can be done in the [IndexBoost] section in your " ezfind.ini…
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Indexing & Searching Multiple Sites New
eZ Find can index multiple Exponential installations using the same instance of Solr. This is enabled by default. All indexed content objects are associated with a unique installation key. The installation key is used to…
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Using multi-core features Updated
As mentioned before, you are able to set up a single Solr instance, the backend engine of eZ Find, to serve multiple sites (it does not even matter if these are on the same box). Similar to a database, Solr is capable of…
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Basic Configuration (11403666) (10) Updated
Configuring eZ Find needs to be done in a few places: Configuration settings: "ezfind.ini" and eZ Find related "site.ini" settings Indexing content Updating the search index
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eZ Find LS 5.1.0 Updated
eZ Find is a search extension for Exponential which provides more functionality and better results than the default search in Exponential. It enables website visitors to quickly and easily locate information on Exponenti…