Documentation / forms & list module

Hello Renee,

The documentation hasn't been rewritten yet for our latest version; we will update it as soon as we've finished it. Meanwhile, could you tell me where the broken links are? We released the 1.7.1 version yesterday and there were some broken links to Lucene syntax corrected so they may be fine now.

Regarding setting up LuceneSearch, what you must do to enable searching for "List and form" content is to index the module. To do so, go to the Portal settings of LuceneSearch


Then select all modules that you need to index in the list under the Indexing tab


Once the modules are checked, their content will be picked up by LuceneSearch during indexation and will be returned when you launch a search.
Please note that to enable searching on Form & List, you must uncheck the following setting in the Form & List module you wish to search: "Exclude this module from system wide search". Otherwise the module won't return the correct data to LuceneSearch.

Best regards,
Samy

I have all that set up but the search still has no fields. How do I get the fields in the forms and list module to show on the search page? I need two fields to show as drop downs on the search page. All I get right now is Find contents with: on the search page and then the search button.

The bad links to the documentation were every where it said "The Official Manual"

Since I just paid for this module a few days ago can I upgrade to the new version you just put out? I am running 1.7.0

To display a custom search interface with the fields, you will have to create a custom control that will let the users select the fields values. To do so you can look at the control we provide by default in the folder Aricie.LuceneSearch/Controls/AdvancedFilters/CommonFilter.ascx and use the FieldDropDownListFilter control.

However the Form and list module doesn't index its data in discrete fields but rather merges them into one big string; in order to achieve what you need, you will have to write a custom provider for the Form & List module that will index the fields independently. Providers have been described in a series of blog posts: the first one is here .

So to sum up, to achieve your goal you need :
- a provider that will index the Form & List data into separate fields
- a control that will contain the drop down lists linked to these fields
We can help you create both; if you're interested please mail us at support@aricie.fr

The links to the official manual have indeed been corrected and you can upgrade to 1.7.1 to get what was changed (although it is not a very important upgrade).

Best regards