Is this it? What am I missing?

[xlegends]

Hi

I installed Elastic from here (on same server as forum) on Centos 7 with Yum repo

Install Elasticsearch with RPM | Elasticsearch Guide [8.16] | Elastic

www.elastic.co

Then purchased and installed the Enhanced Search XF

Deleted search index and rebuilt

I just don't see anything different in search. Perhaps maybe better results?

I thought there would be autocomplete or suggested search or features like that.

Maybe I was suppose to install Java? I didnt see any info for that at Elastic search setup info.

Yes, elastic server is up and running.

 

[rickhz]

Good question. I didn't notice much, if any difference either.

 

[Chromaniac]

search should be faster. you should be able to search for smaller than 3 character keywords. and of course, you are able to use the features of the enhanced search addon.

 

[xlegends]

Faster like how? Search is usually instant with previous search.

What are the enhanced features?

like Stop words, word stemming, accent removal?

I was really hoping it used the the full potential of elastic like autocomplete or predictive search.

Was there any configurations I was suppose to enter into elastic configs? All I did was install it.

 

[Chromaniac]

autocomplete is not a native feature of xenforo. there is a paid addon from xon i believe that offers it.

ElasticSearch Essentials

This add-on REQUIRES XenForo Enhanced Search and ElasticSearch to be installed. Without it, this will not do anything. After the installing for the first time, you must use the "Optimize Index" option and then re-index all content. Requires...

xenforo.com

how many posts does your forum have? enhanced search usually works great for forums with more than a million posts. if your forum is relatively smaller, you might not see performance benefits. but it is still great to have search work for smaller keywords.

here is an example. this search won't work if enhanced search is not enabled:

https://xenforo.com/community/search/search/?keywords=2.2

the extra features i was talking about are part of enhanced search addon like the similar threads box below right on this page. and suggestions when a new thread title is being typed in. these are native features of the xenforo enhanced search addon.

ES 2.2 - Enhanced Search 2.2 - Similar Threads

In the beginning, XenForo Enhanced Search (XFES) was intended to be a simple drop-in replacement for MySQL full text search, primarily aimed at large forums whose operation would potentially suffer when attempting to search very large database tables. As a drop-in, XFES only made use of the...

xenforo.com

 

[xlegends]

Oh cool. Just just noticed the suggestion of thread title. Though, would make more sense if it did that for regular search. I will check out Xon's addon. Love his addons.

Thanks chromaniac

ya the forum is a 17 yr old forum. 1.4 mil posts but its relatively slow in traffic.

 

[Overscan]

Yes Xon's Search Improvements is very useful to tweak the search settings.

I found I was getting much more useful searches with my forum dataset with the Enhanced Search.

 

[xlegends]

Wow XF Enhanced search + Xon search essentials work amazing together.