I am new to Umbraco and checking it out for a possible project I might be working on.
My potential client is not very happy with the search functionality they have as it stands. Are there any products / plug ins people can recommend that enhances search quite quickly?
Do you mean front or back end? Umbraco uses Examine under the hood (for both!). It's very configurable (for devs) and you can easily create some nice site searches out of it (excluding certain doc types, including / excluding media files etc etc).
To have a very quick introduction I'd recommend installing eZSearch https://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/ezsearch/ - that gives you some out of the box functionality and the documentation is a great introduction to Examine in general.
There are lots of folk here who can help with anything more complicated than that and I believe there is an Umbx Workshop planned for exactly this topic.
We have used the following tool for our own client sites. Very powerful and indexes a site by properly crawling content like a search engine. Also indexes content in documents, pdfs, etx
Not entirely sure how it works behind the scenes but it is a great tool. If you get a developer licence you can use it on as many sites as you want.
Its the only .net based tool I have found that properly indexes a site like a search engine.
The problem I find with Examine is that you need to tell it exactly what doctype fields you want indexed. If you have lots of doc types this can get very complicated.
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I am new to Umbraco and checking it out for a possible project I might be working on.
My potential client is not very happy with the search functionality they have as it stands. Are there any products / plug ins people can recommend that enhances search quite quickly?
Thanks Graham
Hi Graham,
Do you mean front or back end? Umbraco uses Examine under the hood (for both!). It's very configurable (for devs) and you can easily create some nice site searches out of it (excluding certain doc types, including / excluding media files etc etc).
To have a very quick introduction I'd recommend installing eZSearch https://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/ezsearch/ - that gives you some out of the box functionality and the documentation is a great introduction to Examine in general.
There are lots of folk here who can help with anything more complicated than that and I believe there is an Umbx Workshop planned for exactly this topic.
HTH
Steve
H Steve
Thanks! I think I mean Front end - as in what Web Users experience when they hit the homepage via the browser and see the search box!
Many thank for the tips - I'll check them out!
Cheers Graham
Hi Graham,
We have used the following tool for our own client sites. Very powerful and indexes a site by properly crawling content like a search engine. Also indexes content in documents, pdfs, etx
https://www.karamasoft.com/ultimatesearchmvc/features.aspx
Cheers,
Marc
Marc,
Do you happen to know what it uses under the hood? Lucene or their own custom format?
Ismail
Hi Ismail,
Not entirely sure how it works behind the scenes but it is a great tool. If you get a developer licence you can use it on as many sites as you want.
Its the only .net based tool I have found that properly indexes a site like a search engine.
The problem I find with Examine is that you need to tell it exactly what doctype fields you want indexed. If you have lots of doc types this can get very complicated.
Cheers,
Marc
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