Search Improvements 2.16.1

[Xon]

Xon submitted a new resource:

Search Improvements - Minor search improvements

A collection of improvements to XF's Enhanced Search and some for XenForo's default MySQL search.

MySQL & Elastic Search features;

• range_query search DSL
  • allows arbitrary range queries for numerical data
• Allow users to select the default search order independent for the forum wide setting.

Elastic Search Only features:

• Per content type weighting
• Adds Elastic Search information to the AdminCP home screen.
• Adds a debug option to log the...

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[mikez006]

Can you explain what "content type weighting" is? I don't really understand.

For example if I put Posts = 5 and Thread = 3, if I search something, it will shows posts first, then threads?

What is the main purpose of this addon? to speed up searches?

" wraps a number of tokens to signify a phrase for searching

I did searches using quotes before and after I installed the product and didn't notice any difference in the results.

 

[Xon]

Can you explain what "content type weighting" is? I don't really understand.

For example if I put Posts = 5 and Thread = 3, if I search something, it will shows posts first, then threads?

Yes, it allows you to influence which content type (ie post/thread/conversation) tends to drift higher to the search results.

Using low values (ie <10) isn't going to influence the results that strongly, you'll need to experiment with it.

What is the main purpose of this addon? to speed up searches?

A collection of small tweaks to the search system, and a shared code-base for some of my other add-ons.

I did searches using quotes before and after I installed the product and didn't notice any difference in the results.

You need to enable the "enhanced search syntax" and be using XFES/ElasticSearch. It also depends on if you have word stemming turned on.

 

[Xon]

Xon updated Search Improvements with a new update entry:

2.0.1 - Bugfix update

• Fix XF2.1 adding options to account preferences page

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[Xon]

Xon updated Search Improvements with a new update entry:

2.0.2 - Maintenance update

• Add an icon
• Respect per-user default search order when viewing the advanced search page.

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[Xon]

Xon updated Search Improvements with a new update entry:

2.1.0 - Feature update

• Add "allow empty search" option.
  • Allows MySQL search to support * searches like XFES does.

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[Overscan]

Nice - this looks useful for my search needs.

 

[Xon]

On XF 1.5, I can set it to: Most Recent
View attachment 195516

How to do the same on XF 2.1?

Thanks!

Will be re-implemented in the next version of this add-on, annoyed it got cut from the XF2 XFES

 

[Xon]

Xon updated Search Improvements with a new update entry:

2.2.0 - Feature update

• Add default search order option
  • XFES for XF1 used to have this option, but it was removed in XF2.
  • Support setting "Word Count" as the default search order, if Word Count Search is installed.

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[Biarritz64]

Hi @Xon
i try the latest version

and still have some error

{"sort":["_score",{"date":"desc"}],"docvalue_fields":["discussion_id","user","date"],"_source":false,"size":10000,"query":{"bool":{"must":{"simple_query_string":{"query":"test","fields":["title","message"],"default_operator":"and"}},"must_not":[{"exists":{"field":"hidden"}},{"terms":{"node":[81,117]}}]}}}

 

[Xon]

Why do people post errors without the damn stack trace?

You've probably turned the "Log Search DSL" setting on, which is disabled by default.

 

[eva2000]

@Xon nice, love your work



Not sure if this is controlled by your addon but in XF 1.5 with enhanced search if i search for phrase = php 7.2 it would return matches for php 7.2.15 or php 7.2.14 etc references. But in XF 2.1.0 with enhanced search 2.1.0 and search improvements 2.2.0, searching php 7.2 returns empty while php 7.2* returns results for php 7.2.15 or 7.2.14 as well. I have set search option min word search = 2.

Strangely though, if i have post with word 6.6.0, searching 6.6 matches 6.6.0 ??

 

[Xon]

@eva2000 make sure you have 'Word stemming' enabled for XF2, I don't think it is enabled by default for XF2.

This add-on wouldn't change how the word-matching strategy is used.

 

[eva2000]

@eva2000 make sure you have 'Word stemming' enabled for XF2, I don't think it is enabled by default for XF2.

This add-on wouldn't change how the word-matching strategy is used.

cheers word stemming is enabled but guess need to troubleshoot the issue.

 

[zethon]

Is there any way to restrict the Enhanced Search functionality to certain user groups, and have other user groups use the default search?

 

[Xon]

Nope, it is all or nothing.

 

[Xon]

Xon updated Search Improvements with a new update entry:

2.2.1 - Maintenance update

• Only apply content weighing if more than 1 content type is permitted to be returned in a search query

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[imno007]

@Xon
Is it intentional that 0 and 1 are the only weighing values that can be used?

 

[Xon]

@Xon
Is it intentional that 0 and 1 are the only weighing values that can be used?

The weighting values are passed directly to ElasticSeach, you tend to need to use fairly large values to ensure a content type is preferred over another one.

 

[imno007]

The weighting values are passed directly to ElasticSeach, you tend to need to use fairly large values to ensure a content type is preferred over another one.

Thanks. I actually didn't realize it was an Elastic Search only option, so my bad.