We have had Global Search enabled for at least six months on our Totara LMS. Unfortunately, the search output does not produce the results we were hoping for.
Having read numerous articles online about Solr, we thought it would index the plain text content of our PDF files (since it can). However, every search result only outputs information from the 1) learning pages, 2) file names and 3) the descriptions that we used to describe our uploaded files or e-learning modules. It does not provide search results for key words mentioned within PDF files.
All data is indexed via Solr.
Search areas for pages, HTML, folders, labels, SCORM and files are enabled.
The 'Discard site default search field names' option is disabled; enabling it would produce no output.
As far as we can see, everything is configured correctly. All five steps show a green 'yes'.
We are enrolled in certain courses were pdf files are uploaded.
How can we ensure that the global search also returns results from indexed PDF documents? Does anyone have any best practices or experience of similar issues and solutions? Or does Totara simply not use the Solr option to search within files, even though 'files' are mentioned under 'search areas'?