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dcollins-marketwired - 2/18/2014 11:13:08 AM
   
getting a bare bones search and results going
I'm trying to set up a simple search field with results. (Eventually I'll want to add a search field to all my pages that will take the user to the search results page, but let's take it one step at a time.)
I've gotten a fair ways through the process, though I do not yet have results showing. I've figured out how to make a new index (Site Manager > Admin > Smart Search > General || Index > New || Sites || Cultures ) but now I'm getting this ASP error: "Cannot use a CONTAINS or FREETEXT predicate on table or indexed view 'CMS_Attachment' because it is not full-text indexed."

I've checked the 'store files in database' setting: http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/6_0/devguide/index.html?configuratin_of_full-text_search.htm but no joy.


I wish there as much discussion on getting basic parts set up as there is on customizing them. I don't want anything special. I just want to get something working, and then I can customize at my leisure.

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dcollins-marketwired - 2/18/2014 11:17:02 AM
   
RE:getting a bare bones search and results going
If the answer is "you need to ensure that full-text search support is installed on the server." then is there a way of getting a simpler search going without making these changes?

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kentico_jurajo - 2/19/2014 2:28:29 AM
   
RE:getting a bare bones search and results going
Hi,

If you do not want to configure the full text search on your SQL server, you won't be able to search within files like PDFs, Word documents and so on. If you do not need this, you can setup the smart search without the option searching in attachments as described in the Smart search documentation. Please, read through it all - how to create index, how to set the search fields for your objects, how to use the web parts and what transformations have to be used. Everything is described in the documentation.

Best regards,
Juraj Ondrus