Search form

Search through all webs form (suited for top bar)

<form action="%SCRIPTURLPATH{"plucsearch"}%/%BASEWEB%/%BASETOPIC%" method="post">
  <input type="text" name="search" size="32" /> 
  <input type="submit" value="Search" />
  <input type="hidden" name="web" value="all">
</form>

Search through current web (suited for left bar)

<form action="%SCRIPTURLPATH{"plucsearch"}%/%BASEWEB%/%BASETOPIC%" method="post">
  <input type="text" name="search" size="32" /> 
  <input type="submit" value="Search" />
  <input type="hidden" name="web" value="%%BASEWEB%">
</form>

Query syntax

• you can use + and -, as Google query syntax, just for AND and AND NOT operators respectively
• for a text search, just put the word or add the prefix text: before it
• for a sentence search, just put double quotes
• if you want to search using some meta data, you should use the prefix field: where field is the meta data name (i.e. author).

Query examples (just type it in your PluceneSearch site topic)

• text:plucene or just plucene
• text:"search engine" or just "search engine"
• author:JoanMVigo note that you should use the login name
• form:WebFormName to get all topics with that form
• CONTACTINFO:JoanMVigo if you have declared CONTACTINFO as a variable to be indexed
• type:doc to get all attachments of given type
• web:Sandbox to get all the topics of a given web
• topic:WebHome to get all the topics of a given name
• +web:Sandbox +topic:Test to get all the topics with word Test in name and belonging to Sandbox

Notes: current version of Plucene does not support wildcards.

See also: SearchEnginePluceneAddOn

-- TWiki:Main/JoanMVigo - 21 Mar 2006