Hi all,

I've got a strange problem - when searching for "VP" through my regular search.cgi form, it won't find any results.

URL looks like:
search.cgi?query=VP

If I change the URL to:
search.cgi?Brand=VP

Then it pulls up the VP link right away. The "VP" text is in the Brand column i created, which has a serach weight of 3, and I'm using the INTERNAL Indexing Scheme. When I search for other items using just the Brand, it works just fine. I'm completely baffled as to why it won't work for "VP".

I've tried both Rebuild Search and Repair Tables to no avail.

Anybody have any clue what could be going on?

Thanks,

Stephen

I think the default minimum length of word to search for is 3. I think you can change this in Search.pm.

Hi Laura,

You're totally right... I just took a look at the manual, and for INTERNAL, the minimum word length is 3! :-( If I could make it 2, I'd be quite happy! :-)

I couldn't find anything in Search.pm that I could change...

None of the other indexing options look good to me - I like being able to affect relevance with weights.

Thanks!

Stephen

Sorry - should have been more specific - have a look at the Search.pm in admin/GT/SQL/Search/Base

Thanks, Laura...

I changed 'min_word_size' => 3 to 2, but it still doesn't work (I restarted my httpd, just in case that matters). Perhaps something somewhere else? Might have to call in Alex on this one.. :-)

Thanks!

Stephen

You'll need to rebuild search - it only searches through the words that it has put in the words table - you need it to add all the short words to this table by rebuilding.

Good call, but still no luck...

Hi,

You need to update both Base/Search.pm and Base/Indexer.pm. Once you do that, you need to rebuild the search index.

Cheers,

Alex
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Awesome! That works perfectly. :-)

Thank you very much, Alex and Laura!

Stephen