By solidarity on

Hi, I'm the web developer for a non-profit independent library whose been using drupal for about a year now. I'm currently trying to develop a simple searchable catalog for items. So far, the best and easiest combo I've found is flexisearch + flexinode. However, flexisearch seems wraught with bugs that aren't being addressed (such as the search engine doesn't limit it searched to specified flexinodes and it also returns duplicates).

Does anyone know of an alternative to what I'm working with now? Or are their flexisearch patches that I've been missing?

Thanks!
Patrick

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.6.x

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SparkyUK commented

hi,
I've been trying to do something similar. Used Bookmodule to set up the catalogue (note there are a few bugs in the latest release that may or may not be patched - they are all discussed on the boards now thoug if you search hard enough.)

the advanced search of 4.7 allows one to search withing content type (just pages, just stories, just books and for my purposes just bookreviews).

You can also tag items with taxonmies you only use for bookreviews, and then use taxonomy browser to pull up all books related to say, gardening, or all those about needlecraft or all painting AND ceramics books.

Let me know if you have any other ideas regarding this as it might help me. So far my only problem with this solution for me is that i don't konw how to integrate the type-specific search into the library part of my site.

good luck