I am not able to get autocomplete working

Hello Johan,

Thank you for trying LuceneSearch. In order to help you solve the problem, i am going to ask you to check some points to ensure that the whole system is configured correctly.

First, DotNetNuke 5.x didn't include jQueryUI yet, which is needed by the autocomplete. In order to check if the javascript executes correctly, could you open a browser, and point it at your website after activating the javascript console? (The javascript console can be found with the F12 key in IE, Ctrl+Shift+C in Chrome, and via Ctrl+Shift+K in the latest Firefox; you may also use Firebug in Firefox, which is opened via Ctrl+Shift+C)

After opening the console, refresh your website; you should see some messages coming from the Autocomplete to provide a diagnostic of what is happening. Here is a screenshot from the Aricie homepage running under Chrome

If you experience any error in the console, it may be because jQueryUI is not loaded (it really depends on the error message, but i'm going to assume that to show you how to add jQueryUI to your website). In order to let the autocomplete load the jQueryUI script, you must go to the Autocomplete Settings under Indexer Settings in LuceneSearch

From there, go into "Client Settings" and check the "Include custom styles and scripts" checkbox. Below this check box, you will see four fields appearing, which will allow you to enter the path to a script you want to include, as well as a CSS path. By default these scripts point to the Google CDN version of jQuery 1.8.16. This should work by default.

If you have a previous version of jQueryUI included in your website, it may be too old to support the autocomplete, in which case you can supersede the jQueryUI version already installed with one supporting the Autocomplete by checking the "Overwrite existing versions of jQueryUI" checkbox. Finally there is the option to include a css for the autocomplete. By default we are using the one from Google's CDN, but you should change it to whichever path fits your website.

If everything went fine, you should see a popup under the text area of your textbox; even if there are no results, something should appear. However, if you encounter another error, could you please send us the error message that is logged under the Admin > Event Viewer menu?

Best regards

Samy

Thanks, I've got it working once I upgraded to DNN 6.2.3. Just configuring it so it looks good as well :)

Great :) If you have any other questions, feel free to ask us. And if you're using LuceneSearch on a public website don't hesitate to tell us; we love to see how our modules are used :)

Best regards,

Samy