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Global Search Question

 
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Global Search Question
by ? ? - Thursday, 3 October 2019, 1:23 PM
 

Hello,

We recently enabled the Global Search function and while we love this feature, it doesn't appear that course topics are included in search results. 

I've shared a screenshot below that shows the following:

Topic: Mentor Program

Course: Career Development

Program: New Hire Training

When I conduct a global search for "Mentor" the mentor program topic is not returned in the search results, I only get results showing the word 'mentor' used in different topics. And what's even more curious, is that it doesn't even return the word mentor used in the mentor program topic.

Should/can the Global Search return topic names as results? Is this an Indexing issue?





Even when I conduct a search for 'Ascent Mentor Program' the topic does not come up, but the activity/file that's part of the course, does.



We are using the Elastic plugin for our Global Searching



From what i can tell, we are not using Solr



Thank you!


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Re: Global Search Question
by George Angus - Thursday, 3 October 2019, 8:06 PM
Group Totara

Hi Kelli,

The Global Search is still an Experimental Setting;

'It is important to note that these features are new and may not have been fully tested. Including experimental features means those who want to can try them out and offer feedback to ensure they are improved before they are included in the main site settings as supported features'. 

We are aware of the shortcomings of the functionality, but its unlikely it will be moved from 'Experimental' to general production release in the near future. 

There's some further details on the plugin's integration status in the linked Helpdoc above.

regards,

George.

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Re: Global Search Question
by ? ? - Friday, 4 October 2019, 7:09 AM
 

Ahhh...I didn't know it was an experimental feature. Thanks for the clarification George!

Its me Rahul
Re: Global Search Question
by Rahul Kumar - Monday, 7 October 2019, 5:00 AM
 
Hi George , 


When I had tried to enable global search on my testing site is not working

I have add the global search block and enable global search in experimental setting but when I search on global search block , it said Slor Engine is not enable, shall I need to configure slor engine to use global search .


Regards 

Rahul 

Craig Eves
Re: Global Search Question
by Craig Eves (Totara Support) - Monday, 7 October 2019, 8:20 PM
Group Totara

Hi Rahul

What content are you wanting to search ?

SOLR is a search engine by Apache that does need installing and configuring .

Indexes on selected content can be created to allow for full text searches within activities - there are some limitations in Totara outlined here

The setup depends on your environment and a few of our more technical partners have got this working for their requirements.

There are some guidelines to setup here

regards