Hi
Am currently evaluating an out-of-the-box (more-or-less) installation of SS, version 2.3.3. The search functionality is returning some rather odd results so I wanted to find out a) what I should expect out of the box and b) what can be achieved by tweaking if necessary.
(Apologies for the slight terseness in the wording below, but I was trying to be as concise as possible while stating what I'm trying to achieve.)
Here's what's currently happening:
PageTypes:
Page
Calendar
CalendarEvent
ArticleHolder
ArticlePage
...all return results. However, any COMMENTS in any of those pagetypes do not get returned.
Question: Is this what I should expect?
Question: How can I get the comments included in the search results?
Binary documents:
PDFs
When the PDF is uploaded, it is not immediately picked up by search.
When I use a re-director pagetype to link directly to a PDF, the PDF text is found in the search results.
When I use a hyperlink in the text of a normal page to simply point at a PDF, the text is NOT found in the search results.
Question: Is this what I should expect?
DOCs
Random Word Document a)
As soon as was uploaded, it was picked up by search, even before adding it to any content.
Random Word Document b)
Is NOT picked up by search, even after using a re-director pagetype to link directly to it.
This seems very odd. Why would the two word docs be being handled so differently?
Question: At what point should DOCs and PDFs be included in search results? Just after upload? After they've been pulled up into the site in some way? If so, in what way?
Question: Is there some process I need to undertake in order to add binary documents to the search index? If not, what possible reasons might there be to explain why one word document is being found while the other one isn't?
All advice gratefully received...