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  • Paul 19 posts 99 karma points
    Mar 15, 2021 @ 12:20
    Paul
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    Its a search question

    Can anyone tell me what search engine? Umbraco V8 uses and if there are articles, links so i can learn a little more about it

    Primarily, we need to be able to search synonyms as the area in which we work has a lot of technical words and phases which have the same meaning on different words

    These might be medical terms, so one term might mean the same as another and we would need a DB of these matching terms

    Another feature requested is a search filter on the page after a search has been performed. Maybe on the left-hand side or as a top bar. Is this possible?

    Thanks

  • Brendan Rice 538 posts 1102 karma points
    Mar 15, 2021 @ 19:37
    Brendan Rice
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    Underneath it's Lucene, with a layer on top called Examine:

    https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/reference/searching/examine/

  • Amir Khan 1287 posts 2744 karma points
    Mar 15, 2021 @ 20:22
    Amir Khan
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    And for the filtering you might find this helpful: https://our.umbraco.com/packages/website-utilities/examine-facets/

  • Paul 19 posts 99 karma points
    Mar 17, 2021 @ 11:11
    Paul
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    Thanks everyone

    This question has been asked on a higher level i.e. we have an external provider who is going to upgrade and rebuild our site

    The search function and filter that I think is required will be created by them

    What I would need to know as part of the groundwork, is what would we need to do to build custom indexes or even use the built in ones for specific content

    I know we can set examine to index, page names, tags, nodes, fields etc but we dont know what we should collect to help the developers with this task

    I would assume we would need some form of backend field that we could use for name-value pairs???

    Can create a text file for any synonyms that we might want paired? And then how do the devs use this data? Can the search work on text files or would each resource need to have them added individually to the back-end?

    Sorry Umbraco beginner

    And thanks for any help

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