Faster, Better Search for Sencha Forums http://www.sencha.com/blog/faster-better-search-for-sencha-forums This year we wanted to make big improvements in the Sencha Forums. We started by adding post voting, JIRA integration and trends. Next up, we set out to make search better. Here’s what we’ve done to make search more useful for the community. en-us mitchell.simoens@extjs.com Copyright 2012 2012-09-20T19:00:49+00:00 Comment by Murray @Mitchell, That’s great! Thanks. Re: the post body: I interpreted the line in the blog “Currently there are 4 fields that you can search on: title, author, from and to.” to mean it *only* searched those fields. I now see that it does, in fact search the body if you leave the field qualifier out. Cool! Thanks again. I look forward to finally being able to find what I want in the forums! Murray @Mitchell,

That’s great! Thanks.

Re: the post body: I interpreted the line in the blog “Currently there are 4 fields that you can search on: title, author, from and to.” to mean it *only* searched those fields. I now see that it does, in fact search the body if you leave the field qualifier out. Cool!

Thanks again. I look forward to finally being able to find what I want in the forums!

Murray

]]> Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:48 GMT http://www.sencha.com/blog//faster-better-search-for-sencha-forums#id:32328#date:08:48 Comment by Mitchell Simoens The actual issue was that Solr was keeping the case but everything is lowercased at time of indexing. So since the data is in lowercase and when using the wildcard it kept the case nothing matched. We did push the fix last night and is working when I try: title:Ext.ux* About the post body, that is already working. If you search for: grid that will search for the title and within the post body for grid. The actual issue was that Solr was keeping the case but everything is lowercased at time of indexing. So since the data is in lowercase and when using the wildcard it kept the case nothing matched. We did push the fix last night and is working when I try: title:Ext.ux*

About the post body, that is already working. If you search for: grid that will search for the title and within the post body for grid.

]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:46 GMT http://www.sencha.com/blog//faster-better-search-for-sencha-forums#id:32317#date:13:46 Comment by Murray @Mitchell Thanks. I was intending the asterisk to be a wildcard - I hadn’t thought about it being part of the search. And, therefore, is the escape character a ‘/’ ? An example of escaping in the help might be useful. Re: my first question: Any answer on searching in post body? Thanks again, Murray @Mitchell
Thanks. I was intending the asterisk to be a wildcard - I hadn’t thought about it being part of the search. And, therefore, is the escape character a ‘/’ ? An example of escaping in the help might be useful.

Re: my first question: Any answer on searching in post body?

Thanks again,
Murray

]]> Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:15 GMT http://www.sencha.com/blog//faster-better-search-for-sencha-forums#id:32302#date:21:15 Comment by Mitchell Simoens @Murray We finally found out what is going on and believe we have a fix. We are just talking about where the best place to put the fix is and it will then be fixed which should happen today. Something I didn’t mention is that if you are searching for an asterisk then you would have to escape it in your query otherwise it will be used as a wildcard. @Murray

We finally found out what is going on and believe we have a fix. We are just talking about where the best place to put the fix is and it will then be fixed which should happen today.

Something I didn’t mention is that if you are searching for an asterisk then you would have to escape it in your query otherwise it will be used as a wildcard.

]]> Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:49 GMT http://www.sencha.com/blog//faster-better-search-for-sencha-forums#id:32298#date:16:49 Comment by Kazuhiro Kotsutsumi I translated it into Japanese. http://www.xenophy.com/javascript/3707 Provision: Japan Sencha User Group http://www.meetup.com/Japan-Sencha-User-Group/about/ I translated it into Japanese.

http://www.xenophy.com/javascript/3707

Provision: Japan Sencha User Group
http://www.meetup.com/Japan-Sencha-User-Group/about/

]]> Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:52 GMT http://www.sencha.com/blog//faster-better-search-for-sencha-forums#id:32288#date:18:52 Comment by Murray @Mitchell Yes, I did try that (see post: “title: Ext.ux.grid.feature.*” <—note the * ) - it doesn’t work in this case. I have tested @Nick’s suggestion above and can confirm that if the first letter of the string is UpperCase you get no results but if the first letter is lowerCase you get results. Please see @Nick’s post. @Nick: thanks for the workaround. I would never have thought to test case sensitive! Thanks, Murray @Mitchell
Yes, I did try that (see post: “title: Ext.ux.grid.feature.*” <—note the * ) - it doesn’t work in this case.

I have tested @Nick’s suggestion above and can confirm that if the first letter of the string is UpperCase you get no results but if the first letter is lowerCase you get results. Please see @Nick’s post.

@Nick: thanks for the workaround. I would never have thought to test case sensitive!

Thanks,
Murray

]]> Sat, 22 Sep 2012 02:57 GMT http://www.sencha.com/blog//faster-better-search-for-sencha-forums#id:32280#date:02:57 Comment by Mitchell Simoens @Murray As @Nick said, you would need to use the wildcard (*) for partial word searching. @Murray

As @Nick said, you would need to use the wildcard (*) for partial word searching.

]]> Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:22 GMT http://www.sencha.com/blog//faster-better-search-for-sencha-forums#id:32278#date:00:22 Comment by Nick Great! Significant plus in searching. Seams like it should be a little bit tuned. Like underlined @Murray searching “title: Ext.ux.grid.feature” or “title: Ext.ux.grid.feature.*” has no results but using the same string with tags’s first searching letter in small register gives us results e.g. “title: ext.ux.grid.feature*” or “title: ext.ux.grid.feature.*”. Also just try this simple examples without and with searching results: “title: Ext*”&nbsp; and “title: ext*” “title: Grid*” and “title: grid*” Hope it will be not a big deal to correct this behavior. Thanks! Great! Significant plus in searching.
Seams like it should be a little bit tuned. Like underlined @Murray
searching “title: Ext.ux.grid.feature” or “title: Ext.ux.grid.feature.*” has no results but using
the same string with tags’s first searching letter in small register gives us results e.g.
“title: ext.ux.grid.feature*” or “title: ext.ux.grid.feature.*”.
Also just try this simple examples without and with searching results:
“title: Ext*”  and “title: ext*”
“title: Grid*” and “title: grid*”
Hope it will be not a big deal to correct this behavior.

Thanks!

]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:52 GMT http://www.sencha.com/blog//faster-better-search-for-sencha-forums#id:32276#date:21:52 Comment by Murray At last! Thank you for attending this. The forums are such a rich mine of information and it is great that we have a better way to find what we are looking for. A couple of questions from my testing: 1. Will you be adding the ability to search the body of posts? If a person has not been very descriptive in their title, the post that contains the information I need may not be found. 2. As a test I searched the Ext:User Extensions and Plugins for posts with “title: Ext.ux”. eg to find all the posts related to an Ext class name (or part thereof). The search string above finds no results. I tried “title: Ext.ux.grid.feature.RowFilter” which worked, but neither “title: Ext.ux.grid.feature” nor “title: Ext.ux.grid.feature.*” returned any results. How can one search for partial matches on Ext class names? Thanks, Murray At last! Thank you for attending this. The forums are such a rich mine of information and it is great that we have a better way to find what we are looking for.

A couple of questions from my testing:
1. Will you be adding the ability to search the body of posts? If a person has not been very descriptive in their title, the post that contains the information I need may not be found.

2. As a test I searched the Ext:User Extensions and Plugins for posts with “title: Ext.ux”. eg to find all the posts related to an Ext class name (or part thereof). The search string above finds no results. I tried “title: Ext.ux.grid.feature.RowFilter” which worked, but neither “title: Ext.ux.grid.feature” nor “title: Ext.ux.grid.feature.*” returned any results. How can one search for partial matches on Ext class names?

Thanks,
Murray

]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:42 GMT http://www.sencha.com/blog//faster-better-search-for-sencha-forums#id:32275#date:20:42