Basic versus Advanced Web Site Search
To provide your Web site with search capabilities, your developer places Site Search server controls on a page. See Also: Deploying Site Search Server Controls
The search may look like the image below, although your developer has total control over the "look and feel" of search controls.
This section contains the following topics.
The Basic Search
NOTE: You can designate a folder outside of Ektron to be searched. For more information, see Using Integrated Search.
The Basic Search finds content that satisfies these criteria.
NOTE: New and updated content is available only after the next crawl completes. See Also: Understanding the Search Crawl
Published. Changes checked in but not published are not accessible.
Active. But, expired content appears if the archive option is Archive and remain on Site.
Content’s Content Searchable box is checked.
Public. However, private content is available to those with permission to view it, such as membership users after logging in. See Also: Making Content Private
Library items are searchable by title and file name. To make the content of non-image files (for example Word documents) searchable, add them as assets. See Also: Managing Microsoft Office Assets
- Web site search: Content in selected site language appears unless the developer sets the language via Advanced Query Text or API
- Workarea search: Content in the Workarea’s current language appears (user selects Workarea language via the View > Language menu option)
Search text is contained in title, content, summary, metadata, or these content properties
- Content ID
- Last User To Edit
- Template
- Path
If the search text is more than one term, all terms must be found. So, multiple terms have an AND relationship.
NOTE: A user may force an OR relationship by entering OR between search terms, or using the Advanced Search's any of these words option. Developers may create an OR-based search using the API property ImplicitAnd.
satisfies content type criterion selected on screen, if chosen (see below)
NOTE: The search does not find documents inside compressed files, such as *.zip, *.cab, etc.
Search Results by Content Type
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Search Screen Option |
Finds submitted text in these content types |
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Site |
Content from all options listed below. Any document file type defined in the Asset Server Setup screen NOTE: You can find these files using Site as the content type criterion, but not using Documents. |
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HTML HTML form (but not data submitted on form) XML Smart Form (field values but not field labels) Blog entries (not comments) Web calendar events |
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MS Office document (includes Powerpoint, Excel) - Document properties (categories, comments, etc.) NOTE: To search Visio documents, you must install the Visio IFilter. PDF file .txt file |
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Search text in file name (including file type extension) and summary. NOTE: If you assign several images to an eCommerce catalog entry, and want to allow searching for that catalog entry by image file name, the search only works with the first image assigned to the catalog entry. |
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| Search text in file name (including file type extension) or summary | |
| Forums | Forum posts and replies |
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Tags applied to content and library items See Also: Tags |
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PageBuilder Pages |
PageBuilder page: properties (summary, metadata, etc.) and content within the page's widgets. IMPORTANT: If a content block is added to a PageBuilder page, the search only returns its appearance on the PageBuilder page. The search does not find such content on a non-PageBuilder page. |
The Advanced Search
The Advanced Search uses the same search criteria as the Basic Search. (See The Basic Search). The differences are additional options and the fact that you cannot use queries.
The advanced search screen may look like the image above, although your developer has total control over its "look and feel." See Also: Modifying Templated Server Controls
Advanced Search Options
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Search Option |
Finds these pages |
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all of these words |
Web page includes all submitted terms; their position on the page does not matter. |
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none of these words |
Web page does not contain the submitted term. |
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the exact phrase |
Web page must include the exact phrase. For example, if you enter Ektron healthcare, a page with the term Ektron provides healthcare is not found because it is not an exact match. |
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any of these words |
Web page includes any submitted term |
Search Result Ranking
Each content item found by search is given a numerical rank. Search results are sorted by rank. Criteria used to calculate rank include the
number of occurrences of the search term
proximity of search term to beginning of file
proximity of search term to other occurrences of the term
whether the term is in the title
If you need to ensure that certain content appears at the top of search results when certain terms are entered, use suggested results. See Also: Suggested Results
To learn about customizing ranking for Microsoft Search Server 2010, see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/SP2010DevTrainingCourse_CreatingCustomRankingModels.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff960982
The Content Searchable Field
Each content item includes a Content Searchable field. The search only considers content if this field is checked.
The default value of this field is determined by the ContentSearchable folder property. See Also: Folder Properties Tabs and Fields
WARNING! Despite the value of this checkbox, if an Ektron user places this content item in a Suggested Results list, it appears in the Suggested Results area of the Search Results screen. See Also: Suggested Results.
Also, even if Content Searchable is unchecked, the Advanced Workarea search can find the content.