Where is the Enhanced Search manual?

[Alpha1]

I have bought and installed Enhanced Search. But I see no feature list or end user instructions anywhere. The ES site doesn't give much information either.
Clearly the search works, but what can my users do with it? What search variables can be used?
How do I explain my users (who paid for it) what new search functions they got for their money?
Is there a tutorial for end users somewhere or a video?

 

[Paul B]

From an end user's perspective, there's very little to know.

It supports the following modifiers:
+ = AND (default)
- = NOT
| = OR

Additionally, using quotes allows for phrase searching.

 

[Mike]

Generally speaking, the query language exposed is the same as with MySQL full text.

Otherwise, the changes are generally fairly invisible to users. Searches for shorter words work. Stemming is done automatically (if configured). Results can be sorted by relevance (to the query).

 

[Alpha1]

I found this document about search queries: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html
I see that the examples there work on XFES. For example:
qu?ck bro* age:>10
The syntax that can be used is quite advanced.
Its not a comprehensive document and not suited to end users but its something.

 

[Xon]

qu?ck bro* age:>10

The <keyword>:<value> bits don't work due to the term mangling Enhanced Search does. But wildcards (? and *) do work.

 

[Alpha1]

Ah I see. Thanks. That's too bad though that XFES doesn't take advantage of Elastics features. People will still have to use google to use advanced parameters. Hopefully in the future there will be more features in XFES.

 

[Mike]

Worth noting that the equivalent of the "field:value" type is really exposed via the advanced search form (limiting to nodes, dates, specific users, etc).

 

[Alpha1]

Is there any way to search for a bbcode in posts? My members need to find all posts with "[/table]" in it but this doesn't seem possible with Enhanced Search.

 

[Slavik]

Is there any way to search for a bbcode in posts? My members need to find all posts with "[/table]" in it but this doesn't seem possible with Enhanced Search.

With an SQL query or the post search and replace addon.

 

[Mr Lucky]

With an SQL query or the post search and replace addon.

Isn't Alfa1 asking how members can search?

 

[Ernest L. Defoe]

Isn't Alfa1 asking how members can search?

He is. He said his members need to be able to search for posts with a certain bbcode in it.

 

[Slavik]

Err, ok, thats weird Dont think ive ever needed to search for a post by the bb code in the.... 25 years ive been on the internet However it should work...

https://xenforo.com/community/search/8990053/?q=[/IMG]&o=relevance&c[node]=56

 

[Alpha1]

It only works in mysql search, but not in Enhanced Search.

 

[Slavik]

We run Enhanced Search here.

 

[Alpha1]

Ah I assumed you checked out that it worked well here. ES will show any mention of img. Not just [/img]

 

[Slavik]

Are you wrapping it in quotes? "[/IMG]"

 

[Alpha1]

Yes, that but quotes get ignored. A search for "[/table]" will result in any thread that has table in it.
This search: https://xenforo.com/community/search/8990260/?q="[/table]""&t=post&o=date
Results in this post: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/session-cache.124239/#post-1132118
I use this way of searching all the time through google. Should this function work on ES?

Worth noting that the equivalent of the "field:value" type is really exposed via the advanced search form (limiting to nodes, dates, specific users, etc).

True except that you can only search for 'newer than', but not 'older than'.

 

[Xon]

It depends on the stemming analyser. If you have the standard "[/table]" is searchable, otherwise the snowball/English analyser removes some tokens.

 

[Wildcat Media]

But wildcards (? and *) do work.

I have been trying these search modifiers this evening on a big board (in order to prepare a tutorial), and I have found that ? does not work, but * seems to.