By ggevalt on

I've searched through the various threads but cannot find a reference to this problem; I hope someone can help.

The Drupal search function does not pick up all the appropriate material on the site. As near as I can determine a pattern, it is only searching the preview portion of a story -- it does not go deeper.

Search indicates 100 percent of the site is indexed. It is picking up new material. But, as I say, the gaps seem to be in what is contained beyond the first few lines or paragraphs in a story.

ALSO I would like to have certain user groups be able to search MODERATED CONTENT and COMMENTS. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

Geoffrey Gevalt
www.youngwritersproject.org

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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nedjo
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Search module indexes the rendered content of a full view of a 'node' (piece of content). Sometimes this doesn't include all the fields that are there (in the database, displayed conditionally, etc.). Sometimes one has to tweak a theme function to get the content you want rendered as part of the node, and therefore indexed.

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ggevalt commented

I appreciate your response, but I'm not sure what you mean.

I'm talking about trying to get the search function to examine and index ALL the content within the body of all the nodes we have in the database, primarily story and blog nodes. It seems as though the search indexing is not going deep enough into the node body to pick up all the text that is in there and thus, when searching, the requested search word is not finding the material in the node.

What do you mean by tweak a theme function?

And how would that help?

Again, thanks in advance.

geoff gevalt
http://www.youngwritersproject.org

geoff gevalt
http://www.youngwritersproject.org
http://www.ywpschools.net
http://geoffreygevalt.com

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el_baby commented

Hi,

I have the same problem... I dunno if it's the "first" part of the nodes that get indexed or some part so and some others don't. What I'm quite sure is that:

  • The full view does show the text I'm searching for
  • Whenever I search for it, I don't find it

This happens for some search strings (I couldn't still characterize)... sometimes, the search string is found in some nodes and not in others.

Drupal 4.7.6 / PHP 4.4.4 / MySQL 5.0.24a

Any pointer appreciated.
--
Mariano Absatz - el Baby

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dharani_viji commented

please reply if anyone has the solution for this problem? Does the problem exist with the latest release of drupal tooo?

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analogious commented

We mainly use pages.

I have not found any pattern yet.

The word that is not found does show up in the following tables:

search_dataset
search_index
search_total

Version 4.7

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mpapet commented

Except this happened after I upgraded from 4.x to 5.x. All of my search history is gone too.