3 letter search possible ?

[erich37]

I am wondering if it is possible to search for 3 or 4 letter words when using this Addon ?

http://xenforo.com/help/enhanced-search/


Many thanks!

 

[Paul B]

Yes.

See the FAQ in my signature for search issues and limitations.

 

[erich37]

thanks!


I am wondering if the "Elastic Search" can also search for portions of a certain word ?

For example:
I do have the following word as a Thread-Title: "Voestalpine"

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/voestalpine.65271/


Now when I search for the term "voest", then it does not give any results.
I have tried it here at the Test-Forum (since it says in your FAQ that xenforo.com is indeed using Elastic Search) and searched for the term "voest", but it also does not give me any search-results.

 

[Paul B]

 

[erich37]

hmmm...

then it seems I am doing something wrong or need to learn how to "search"

 

[erich37]

but it seems your search-result does not show this thread:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/voestalpine.65271/

Maybe it is because "test messages" are excluded from search ?

 

[Mike]

It's "voest*" that you need to search for to find partials.

 

[erich37]

is there any chance to display a "search result" when not using the "star" at the end of the search-term ?

 

[Mike]

Not for something like this.

The only support is for language-specific stemming rules (standardizing things like plurals, "ing" endings, etc) so the root word is matched on them.

 

[Floren]

See the FAQ in my signature for search issues and limitations.

I thought ElasticSearch is building and using their own indices for search? Can anyone let me know if you can search 2 letters keywords with XenForo Enhanced Search? If you cannot, this is a major showstopper, as many large forums rely on on small keywords. I'm going to install the product now and see what options we have available. Thanks for letting me know.

 

[Paul B]

Note that the XenForo Enhanced Search add-on, which is installed here on XenForo.com, does not suffer the same constraints as default MySQL search does with regards to minimum word length and stop words. The stopwords for elasticsearch are listed here.

 

[Floren]

Thank you @Brogan!

 

[audiokid]

2 letter search is not a problem.

 

[rdn]

I even allow 1 letter to be search

 

[Dad.]

I even allow 1 letter to be search

Does that do any good?