I am about to release a relatively large Intranet. The content is made up of about 25GB of data (as far as the media goes) in the form of word documents, excel files, PDFs, images, etc. There are approx. 5,000 nodes of content and another ~200 miscellaneous nodes of document types.
I am looking to hear recommendations from the community on what the best option is for a search package. I have looked at the following so far:
- XSLT Search (classic by Doug Robar) - As far as I know this does not support document searching - UmbSearch2 (Axendo) - This staisfies the document searching and seems to bea good package (I have not had much luck with installing iFilters, so I am not sure how complex this is).
Any others out there that are not listed under 'Projects'?
There's no more that I know of. XsltSearch is great for content, but doesn't support any media searching. I'd think UmbSearch is what you're after.
Alex Norcliffe was mentioned at CodeGarden09 that he was working on a more robust Lucene package, however I don't think this has been released yet. Anyone know if this is still going to happen?
@Chris: custom Lucene implementation as showed off by Alex and Kenneth will be included in core in release 4.1 (it will even be more interesting as this will be a joined force with the people from The Farm Digital who've also done an implementation
Something to look forward to.
@Bob: Me thinks thomas 'search engine' uses the nodeFactory (so only deals with published content) for searching through content.
Search Packages for Umbraco
Hi all,
I am about to release a relatively large Intranet. The content is made up of about 25GB of data (as far as the media goes) in the form of word documents, excel files, PDFs, images, etc. There are approx. 5,000 nodes of content and another ~200 miscellaneous nodes of document types.
I am looking to hear recommendations from the community on what the best option is for a search package. I have looked at the following so far:
- XSLT Search (classic by Doug Robar) - As far as I know this does not support document searching
- UmbSearch2 (Axendo) - This staisfies the document searching and seems to bea good package (I have not had much luck with installing iFilters, so I am not sure how complex this is).
Any others out there that are not listed under 'Projects'?
Thanks much all.
-- Nik
Hi Nik,
There's no more that I know of. XsltSearch is great for content, but doesn't support any media searching. I'd think UmbSearch is what you're after.
Alex Norcliffe was mentioned at CodeGarden09 that he was working on a more robust Lucene package, however I don't think this has been released yet. Anyone know if this is still going to happen?
Chris
not sure if Thomas' search does docs, but might be worth a look... http://our.umbraco.org/projects/simple-search-for-umbraco
@Chris: custom Lucene implementation as showed off by Alex and Kenneth will be included in core in release 4.1 (it will even be more interesting as this will be a joined force with the people from The Farm Digital who've also done an implementation
Something to look forward to.
@Bob: Me thinks thomas 'search engine' uses the nodeFactory (so only deals with published content) for searching through content.
Cheers,
/Dirk
Thanks guys for all your input. I wish 4.1 was already out.
Hi Nik,
Didn't see this thread earlier. But the Axendo boys also build a package that is using Lucene. So it must be possible to index media
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/umbsearch2
Cheers,
Richard
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