When I installed Umbraco 7.5.1.1 for the first time on my localhost, I installed the 1st skin package out of the 3 that Umbraco offered me. There appears to be no front-end search box that comes with the example skin.
Where can I learn to create and manage a search component for Umbraco 7? Or is it so easy I shouldn't of asked this question ;) Here are my requirements....
A content node with a search box that can be used to search for documents and pages (not images), also search content by meta data.
The ability to manage search results. i.e. can I display all content pages first, then all pdfs, then all word documents, then all zip files?
Filter out search results for public members, (i.e. filter out a specific folder of documents), but when that user logs in, show all results. Is this possible?
Add custom icons based on file extensions for each search result kind? i.e. pdfs get a small pdf icon next to them, word documents get, etc...
Can I determine what else gets shown besides the link title of each search result item?
Can we create a data type that provides meta data to uploaded PDF's or Word documents? All for the purpose of searching for these items through a search component? For example I may have a PDF called cats-and-dogs-company.pdf but If I had a data type text box that I was able to type into that says "cad" and a user types in cad in a search box, the cats-and-dogs.pdf will show as a result.
0 to hero with Umbraco 7 Search on the front-end
When I installed Umbraco 7.5.1.1 for the first time on my localhost, I installed the 1st skin package out of the 3 that Umbraco offered me. There appears to be no front-end search box that comes with the example skin.
Where can I learn to create and manage a search component for Umbraco 7? Or is it so easy I shouldn't of asked this question ;) Here are my requirements....
A content node with a search box that can be used to search for documents and pages (not images), also search content by meta data.
The ability to manage search results. i.e. can I display all content pages first, then all pdfs, then all word documents, then all zip files?
Filter out search results for public members, (i.e. filter out a specific folder of documents), but when that user logs in, show all results. Is this possible?
Add custom icons based on file extensions for each search result kind? i.e. pdfs get a small pdf icon next to them, word documents get, etc...
Can I determine what else gets shown besides the link title of each search result item?
Can we create a data type that provides meta data to uploaded PDF's or Word documents? All for the purpose of searching for these items through a search component? For example I may have a PDF called cats-and-dogs-company.pdf but If I had a data type text box that I was able to type into that says "cad" and a user types in cad in a search box, the cats-and-dogs.pdf will show as a result.
Thanks for any tips!
Good start for you is
ezsearch package: https://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/ezsearch/
CogUmbracoExamineMediaIndexer - document exraction https://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/cogumbracoexaminemediaindexer/
Examine documentation: https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/reference/searching/examine/
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