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Search General Settings tab

Overview

This tab is the main place to enable and disable search features and attributes

To Access

From the Search page, click the General Settings tab.

Note

For Tiki 6 +, use MySQL Full-Text Search

7.x

Search General Settings tab

Setting	Description	Default
Unified Search
Search	If enabled, Tiki will use its own managed index for site searches.
Incremental Index Update	If enabled, Tiki will update its internal search index each time new content (pages) are created. Note: Enabling this option may impact performance
Unified Search Engine	Select the search engine.
Field Weights	Use this area to configure field-weighting in search results. You can assign different weighting values to different sections of a page (such as its title)
Default content fields
Rebuild Index	Click Rebuild Index to rebuild the Tiki-managed search index.
MySQL Search
MySQL Full-Text Search	For Tiki versions 6.x and higher this should be set on if search is to be enabled
Referrer Search Highlighting	Referrer search highlighting is when a user goes to a search engine such as Google or Yahoo and performs a search that generates links to your pages. When they click on the link and this feature is active, Tiki notices that they have come from a search engine site and highlights the search words they used. The result is similar to using the search using Tiki's own search facility.
Parse the results	When enabled search results are parsed so content formatting is visible in the search results
Search stats	This option enables administrators to collect and view statistics on search activity
Permissions
Ignore individual object permissions	This option can improve systems performance but can also result in a search revealing items the user may not be entitled to view
Ignore category viewing restrictions	This option can improve systems performance but can also result in a search revealing items the user may not be entitled to view
Features
Autocomplete on page names	This option enables Tiki to automatically complete page names as the user starts typing. For example the user types the start of the wiki page name "Sear" and Tiki returns "Search", "Search General Settings", etc

6.x

Search General Settings tab

Setting	Description	Default
Search type
MySQL Full-Text Search	For Tiki versions 6.x and higher this should be set on if search is to be enabled
Tiki Indexed Search	Many Tiki versions before supported MySQL. If you need to use this feature refer to the 2.x or 1.x tabs for the individual options which are then enabled
Features
Search Bar	Enables the Search Bar, which then normally appears in the Tiki top area
Referrer Search Highlighting	Referrer search highlighting is when a user goes to a search engine such as google or yahoo and performs a search that generates links to your pages. When they click on the link and this feature is active, TikiWIki notices that they have come from a search engine site and highlights the search words they used. The result is similar to using the search using TikiWIki's own search facility.
Parse the results	When enabled search results are parsed so content formatting is visible in the search results
Search stats	This option enables administrators to collect and view statistics on search activity
Autocomplete on page names	This option enables Tiki to automatically complete page names as the user starts typing. For example the user types the start of the wiki page name "Sear" and Tiki returns "Search", "Search General Settings", etc
Tiki Indexed Search	Many Tiki versions before supported MySQL. If you need to use this feature refer to the 2.x or 1.x tabs for the individual options which are then enabled
Permissions
Ignore individual object permissions	This option can improve systems performance but can also result in a search revealing items the user may not be entitled to view
Ignore category viewing restrictions	This option can improve systems performance but can also result in a search revealing items the user may not be entitled to view

2.x

Search General Settings

Setting	Description	Default
Search settings
Referer Search Highlighting	Specify if the search results page will highlight the matched words. See Referrer Search Highlighting for details. Note: Selecting this option may negatively affect Tiki search performance.
Parse the Result	Specify if Tiki should parse the wiki syntax on the search results page. If not selected, the wiki sytax (code) will be shown. Selecting this option may negatively affect Tiki search performance. This option was introduced in Tiki 2.0
Activate MySQL Full Text Search	If selected, the search uses a full-text database search. If not selected, the database search is primarily an OR search between searched words. The Tikiwiki search will be refreshed automatically. This option was introduced in Tiki 2.0
Ignore individual object permissions	If selected, the database search results will show all matches — even if the user does not have permission to view the specific page. Selecting this option may negatively affect Tiki search performance.
Ignore category viewing restrictions	If selected, the database search results will show all matches — even if the user does not have permission to view the specific category. Selecting this option may negatively affect Tiki search performance.
Search stats	Specify if Tiki records the searched terms for use in the Search Stats page.
Search Refresh Mode	Specify how Tiki determines th search refresh index: Normal or Random. Note: This option applies only if the Activate MySQL Full Text Feature is not enabled.
Search refresh rate	Specify how often Tikiwiki should refresh the search engine: the bigger is the number, the less often one random object is indexed. At each access to a page of the site, a random number between 1 and the refresh rate is computed . If this number is 1 , a random abject is indexed. Starting with Tiki 2.0, the index is refreshed in real time. Note: This option applies only if the Activate MySQL Full Text Feature is not enabled.
Minimum length of search word	Specify the minimum number of characters of the search word. Note: This option applies only if the Activate MySQL Full Text Feature is not enabled. When using the MySQL Full Text Search, you must specify the word length it in the MySQL configuration by using the ft_min_word_len variable. See the MySQL documentation for details.
Max. number of words containing a syllable	only for the db independent search. Note: This option applies only if the Activate MySQL Full Text Feature is not enabled.
Max. age in hours of syllable search cache	only for the db independent search. Note: This option applies only if the Activate MySQL Full Text Feature is not enabled.
LRU list purging rate	only for the db independent search. Note: This option applies only if the Activate MySQL Full Text Feature is not enabled.
LRU list length	only for the db independent search. Note: This option applies only if the Activate MySQL Full Text Feature is not enabled.

1.9

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Search General Settings

Setting	Description	Default
Search Features
Full text search	If selected, the search uses a full-text database search; if not, the database search is primarily an OR search between searched words, the Tikiwiki search will be refreshed automatically in tikiwiki >=1.10
Search stats	Specify if Tiki records the searched terms for use in the Search Stats page.
Referrer search highlighting	Specify if the results highlight the matched words. Note: Selecting this option may negatively affect Tiki search performance.
Refresh wiki search index now	select to refresh the search index of a Tikiwiki search. Note: Use the Refresh... option only for small sites — larger sties should use a cron batch job.
Performance issues
Ignore individual object permissions	If selected, the database search results will show all matches — even if the user does not have permission to view the specific page.
Ignore category viewing restrictions	If selected, the database search results will show all matches — even if the user does not have permission to view the specific category. Note: These options may negatively affect Tiki search performance.
Settings for searching content
Search refresh rate	Used only for the tiki search feature - larger numbers result in search indexs occurring less often. In tikiwiki>=1.10, the indexation is refreshed in real time (if full text option is unchecked).
Minimum length of search word	only for the database independent search. For Mysql fulltext you must do it in the MySQL configuration.
Max. number of words containing a syllable	only for the db independent search.
Max. age in hours of syllable search cache	only for the db independent search.
LRU list purging rate|only for the db independent search.
LRU list length	only for the db independent search. Note: LRU (Least Recently Used) is search engine technique implemented in Oracle, Java and others. It may also be known as a "search cache"