ResultsFind it. Fast.
Give your website users a fast tool to find what they need, including attachments like Word documents and Adobe PDFs. ADXSTUDIO CMS Search provides you with a built-in, automated solution to index your website's content and provide consistent, qualified results to searchers. By default, all webpage foreground text and attachments are included, as well as any META data contributed by content authors. Website managers can exclude selected webpages, and even entire content trees, from search indexing as per their editorial desire. Scheduled content indexing results in minimal impact to web servers but editor initiated indexing is always available on-demand. Branded messaging can be inserted into found and not found results with complete CMS control over content and formatting. Visitors can trigger searches from anywhere in your site and by way of a drop-down menu they can limit returns to delineated content hierarchies. Word and phrase searches are standard, as are Boolean operators. Custom implementations incorporating publication dates and other specific webpage attributes can easily be accommodated. Search return listings are organized in an easy-to-scan, organized format, with specified returns presented on consecutive, easy to navigate, return pages. |
As content information hierarchies grow to contain hundreds or thousands of webpages, website administrators will find the ADXSTUDIO Console's webpage search/locator to be a helpful alternate to the hierarchical tree-view when locating specific content objects.
Documents can be searched by one or more keyword fields, with delineation by object type. Successful results returns are viewed in an informative list format, with a mouse-click selection resulting in the direct launch of that object's Document Editor.
The ADXSTUDIO search engine is tightly integrated with Microsoft® Index Server, storing all document contents in XML in a SQL database. Index Server searches all of the physical files applying these processes:
- Custom meta-tag attributes are registered with Index Server to be included in the catalog.
- The CMS exports content to a specific directory that is not on the web. This process can be automated or invoked manually by the web administrator through the web console.
- Index Server is configured to catalog this export directory.
- Exported files include all document language versions, and only include raw content and meta-tags, thus excluding presentation code or other HTML.
- CMS Document Attachments (PDF, Word, etc.) are included in the export.
- When the user issues a search, the CMS API queries Index Server and builds search results, respecting language and all CMS attributes. Catalog links are automatically translated into CMS links.
When the website visitor requests a search (through a quick search, standard search, or advanced search page), ADXSTUDIO CMS will build and issue an Index Server compatible query. Search results are then made available to the user once they are processed.
Typical user interface capabilities include:
- The site visitor can sort the search results by relevance (default) or apply a number of different user-defined attributes.
- Results support a paging model with the user defining the number of search result entries on a single page (10 – 100). Returns incorporate a detail of the number of hits and pages and allow the user to navigate easily between pages.
- Search interface will include multi-lingual (if applied), CMS-controlled content to instruct users on the use of search interface.
- Sites can include a basic keyword search as well as an advanced search interface that allows the user to have maximum control over the search parameters such as full text and/or meta-data.
- Search forms can include a reset button. Meta data search parameters include pre-populated dropdown lists to facilitate a flexible user experience.
- ADXSTUDIO validates search criteria against pre-defined rules prior to processing search with Index Server. All results that are returned by Index Server are validated prior to being displayed to the user.
- Search interfaces are tightly integrated into the caching model of ADXSTUDIO for maximum performance.
- Search results typically include a title that is clickable through to the destination, release or effective dates, filenames, file sizes, abstracts, and a navigation path to the document. Any CMS captured attribute can be included in the search result listing.
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| | ADXSTUDIO Navigation features automate and simplify the task of creating useful link mechanisms and updating them seamlessly, without editorial intervention, as content directories and destinations evolve. |
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