Field data not indexed in Joomla Smart Search

[lyquix-owner]

Using Joomla 3.6.0 and FC 3.1.0-rc

It doesn't seem like the values of fields are passed by the Smart Search plugin to the indexer.

[ggppdk]

Yes, we do not pass them, we can do it,

but probably better create individual smart search filters for them too ?

[lyquix-owner]

Ok, I will take a look to see if we can improve the plugin, at least passing the string of all field values. Maybe we can add a setting to the plugin to control if we want to include this data or not.

[ggppdk]

Actual the original effort to support the smart search index

• was 95% of the needed work

and then tired by the effort, said we can do the rest 5% a little later, but then never did

[ggppdk]

A reason for not doing it,

• is that for majority of web-sites we recommend that FLEXIcontent index and FLEXIcontent search view is used
• but i understand that smart search index also has much more styling option by 3rd party template makers

[lyquix-owner]

For us the big difference is that smart search indexes other components besides com_content and com_flexicontent, and for many of our sites that is needed.

How (and where) do we trigger the FC Smart Fearch plugin and pass indexable data? I can see the plugin https://github.com/FLEXIcontent/flexicontent-cck/blob/master/plugins/finder/flexicontent/flexicontent.php but it doesn't seem to do much there.

If you give me some guidance I can do some local test and come back with a more specific suggestion.

[ggppdk]

In plugin manager, filter by finder plugins

• enable Smart Search - FLEXIcontent
• disable Smart Search - Content

[lyquix-owner]

Yes, I know that, I meant where in the code :-)

[lyquix-owner]

@ggppdk : I am testing the following modifications:

On /plugins/finder/flexicontent/flexicontent.php, before line 269

$item->body = FinderIndexerHelper::prepareContent($item->body, $item->params);

I added the following lines:

$fcitemmodel = new FlexicontentModelItem();
$fcitem = $fcitemmodel->getItem($item->id, $check_view_access=false);
$item->body = $fcitem->search_index;

And after line 332:

include_once JPATH_SITE . '/components/com_flexicontent/helpers/route.php';

I added:

require_once (JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR . '/components/com_flexicontent/defineconstants.php');
JTable::addIncludePath(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR . '/components/com_flexicontent/tables');
require_once(JPATH_SITE . "/components/com_flexicontent/classes/flexicontent.fields.php");
require_once(JPATH_SITE . "/components/com_flexicontent/classes/flexicontent.helper.php");
require_once(JPATH_SITE . "/components/com_flexicontent/models/".FLEXI_ITEMVIEW.".php");

I noticed that $item->body was always blank, so I imagined that passing the search string would be useful. This allows for the basic search strings to be processed by SmartSearch plugin and make their content part of the index. It seems to be working well.

I also tried passing the correct content type on line 299:

$item->addTaxonomy('Type', 'Item');

But $item->type_id always has value 1 and $item->typename and $item->typealias are always blank.

[lyquix-owner]

Where it says

require_once(JPATH_SITE . "/components/com_flexicontent/models/" . FLEXI_ITEMVIEW . ".php");

I had to change to:

if(!class_exists('FlexicontentModelItem')) require_once(JPATH_SITE . "/components/com_flexicontent/models/" . FLEXI_ITEMVIEW . ".php");

because I was getting a fatal error on saving items:

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class FlexicontentModelItem in /srv/www/dev.rothmaninstitute.com/public_html/components/com_flexicontent/models/item.php

[ggppdk]

OK, the smart index plugin should be finished to support the custom field data being indexed

this because it is both

• important for several web-sites to be able to use Joomla SMART with FLEXIcontent
• and also because it is rather little to moderate amount work to finish this

I have added short-term milestone, and higher priority for this

[ggppdk]

Also there should be a parameter for selecting type to be excluded from Smart-search indexer