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Ektron 8.6.1

Setting Up Search for Your Website

Ektron Web search finds relevant results within several parts of the CMS structure and offers massive scalability, scaling to tens of millions of items and beyond. Search capability is based on Microsoft Search Server 2010 technology, which provides superior search capability with performance and extensibility currently demanded by enterprises world wide. There are specific search functions for the visitor using the website and the administrator using the Workarea. You can search contenttypes of content include HTML, XML Smart Forms, forms, polls, surveys, DMS documents, Office documents, multimedia, blogs, Web calandars, discussion boards, assets, and content imported from Sharepoint., documents, metadatadata about data, keywords, descriptions, titles, community content, users, groups,and activity streams.

For more information about Search, see the Ektron Framework API > Ektron.Cms.Framework.Search and the Framework UI > Templated Server Controls > Search in the Ektron Online Developer's Reference.

Online Search webinar: V8.6 Enterprise Search - What's New and Best Practices Video

ClosedSearch providers

Best Practices

  • The server hosting your search provider needs at least 120 GB free space.
  • Install SQL Server on a standalone server
  • The optimal operating system is Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 or 2012

You can choose from the following search providers. Use the following guidelines to determine which search server is best for you. For a more details, see Search Technologies for SharePoint 2010 Products.

ClosedSearch provider comparison table

Search Provider Comparison Table

The following table compares functionality available with search providers.

ClosedDeciding between Microsoft Search Server 2010 or FAST

Deciding between Microsoft Search Server 2010 or FAST

  1. Decide if you will install Microsoft Search Server 2010 on the server that hosts Ektron, or on a separate server. Ektron strongly recommends a separate server for Microsoft Search Server 2010. If you must install both on the same server, use the configuration for testing purposes only.
  2. Install Microsoft Search Server 2010. If you will use Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010, see Setting Up a Microsoft FAST Search. If your server has Windows 7, see Setting Up Microsoft Search Server 2010.
  3. Install or upgrade to Ektron Release 8.6 or higher.
  4. When the installation finishes, Microsoft Search Server 2010 kicks off a crawl of your entire website. During this process, Search Server builds the indexes that return search results. As you add and edit Ektron content, crawls run in the background to give Microsoft Search Server 2010 the latest information. To learn more about this topic, see Managing the Search Crawl.
  5. When the crawl has finished, Ektron authors and site visitors can begin using the search.
  6. Searching a Microsoft Search Server Website—explains the site visitor experience of finding content on your website
  7. Searching the Workarea—explains the Ektron user experience of finding content on your website
  8. You can extend the search's functionality by working with Providing Suggested Results, Using Synonym Sets, and the Including External Files in Your Search.
  9. While the pre-8.5 Web Search server control is supported for customers upgrading from a previous version, Ektronstrongly recommends using the 8.5 and higher search controls or APIApplication Programming Interface to deploy search functionality on your website.

Function

Microsoft FAST Search Server

Microsoft Search Server

Microsoft Search Server Express

Providing Suggested Results

Synonym sets

Integrated search

Load balanced search

 

 

Profile ranking

 

  

Faceted search

 

 

Document promotion

 

 

High degree of relevant results/Similar Results

 

 

Autosuggest

This chapter also contains the following topics.

See Also: Why Site Search Matters

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