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  • Louis 37 posts 59 karma points
    Jan 24, 2012 @ 17:26
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    Creating a Search page in Umbraco

    Hi all,

    I'm just wondering if it is possible to create a search page in Umbraco. If so, does anyone have any tutorial links?

    Thanks

  • Jeroen Breuer 4908 posts 12265 karma points MVP 5x admin c-trib
    Jan 24, 2012 @ 17:31
    Jeroen Breuer
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    What kind of seach page do you want? There are some packages which you can use: 

    http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/xsltsearch

    http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/full-text-search

    And off course there is examine :).

    Jeroen

  • Tim 1193 posts 2675 karma points MVP 4x c-trib
    Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:02
    Tim
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    Hi @Louis,

    Jeroen's options are the main ones! To give you an idea of the differences:

    XsltSearch - simple search that uses XSLT syntax, good for many tens of thousands of records. Great if you want a simple search, with no advanced functionality. No real set up required, just install the package, and then add the macro to your search page, and set a few simple parameters like what fields to search etc. You need zero programming skills to add this search to your site.

    The other two use Examine/Lucene. This is a much more complex search tool and allows for things like boosting fields, fuzzy matching and scales extremely well to huge amounts of records and traffic. It is however much more fiddly to set up properly, and requires a decent knowledge of programming to get the most out of it. It is however rediculously powerful.

    Hope that helps!

    :)

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