By glassfrog on

Hello,

I've been looking for an alternative for the Finder module for some time but have not really given it much time. Now with the recent security advisory [drupal.org/node/2445967] recommending that it be uninstalled I need to get this sorted.

As I do not keep up-to-date with current Drupal projects (we use WP more in our team) could anyone recommend an alternative for me?

I currently use Finder to provide search over two types of content

  1. Job posts
  2. Applicants

So for example you can search by typing in "technician" or "sales" and view listed posts, etc. I also have a search form which uses drop-downs to limit the choices and to allow them to filter by other cck fields (location, taxonomy)

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Cheers
Gavin

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

Comments

John_B’s picture

John_B commented

The usual Drupal way to deal with this type of task would be to create Views with expose filters which act like search boxes. This is partly because Drupal's native search facility is not very good, though advanced search does give some granularity. For 'real' search (i.e. using search indexes) of good quality (in cases where views with exposed filters will not do the job), it is usually to use Solr Apache or it is competitor(s) for improved quality searchg, either installed on your own server, or where you have your search indexing hosted on a third party server.

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glassfrog’s picture

glassfrog commented

Cheers John. I appreciate the suggestion.

I'll have a poke about ;0)

rodpal’s picture

rodpal commented

You can use Jump menu Style format in views.