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Last Post: April 1, 2009   (RSS)

By Dave - April 2, 2008

Sounds good. I have a few ideas for some possible solutions. We can talk it over in PMs.
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

Re: [Dave] Site search

Hi, Dave.

As CMSB can't search across more than one section at a time, do you think that Article Manager is a better product if sitewide searching is an issue?

Regards,
Nigel Gordijk

Common Sense Design: User-focused Web design
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Re: [NigelGordijk] Site search

By Dave - March 31, 2009

Hi Nigel,

CMSB can search across more than one section at a time with some of the previous functions, it's just very basic at this point.

There's also design/usability issues with how to consistently display different types of data from different sections in the search results.

Article Manager actually only has one section (articles) but with a pulldown (categories) to split articles up into groups. So it's only searching one section anyway.

I'd say evaluate it on a project by project basis.

Hope that helps!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

Re: [Dave] Site search

>>There's also design/usability issues with how to consistently display different types of data from different sections in the search results. <<

Sorry, how do you mean? Can't the results pages in both CMSB and AM display the page headings as links? So if someone searches for a particular word, the results page will list all of headings/titles/links to pages that contain that word?
Nigel Gordijk

Common Sense Design: User-focused Web design
Tel: 001 519 342 5348 | Web: www.commonsensedesign.net

Re: [NigelGordijk] Site search

By ross - March 31, 2009

Hi Nigel

When you setup both systems, you'll have an option to say what fields are searched when someone uses the search engine.

Once you get the results page, you can pretty much do whatever you like as long as the HTML all works.

If you just need the results page to display the title of the article and let visitors click those titles to get more details, that's fine. You can do that no problem.

Does that help?
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Re: [ross] Site search

Hi, Ross.

I think I recall that the search engine in CMSB only does an "and" search if you are searching more than one field, not an "or" search. Is this still the case?

Thanks,
Nigel Gordijk

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Re: [NigelGordijk] Site search

By ross - April 1, 2009

Hi Nigel

CMS Builder does AND searching. You are correct.
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Re: [ross] Site search

Thanks, Ross.
Nigel Gordijk

Common Sense Design: User-focused Web design
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