Tomorrow morning, we'll be rolling out improved search functionality on our LightCMS, SkyCMS, and WaterCMS systems. All websites running on these products will receive the upgrade automatically at no extra charge. The search functionality is completely rebuilt, offering a much improved experience. Here's a look at what will change:
Everything runs faster and indexing takes place a lot faster, so content can be indexed more frequently (two times per day).- Search results are generated at the page level instead of the element level, making the results much easier to decipher.
- Search results are paginated for a more orderly display.
- The search terms are now highlighted on the search results page.
- The search field now supports some basic inputs such as boolean logic (using "AND" or "OR"), phrases (using quotes), and exclusions (using NOT).
There you have it. The upgrade won't require any changes on your part. Just go searching and things will work a lot better. And also, stay tuned in the weeks ahead as we've got even more search improvements on the horizon.
Scheduled downtime
The update is scheduled for 9:00am CST (GMT-6) on Thursday, December 18th, 2008. There will be a minimal period of downtime (estimated at less than 5 minutes) as the changes go live on the system.
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Wed, December 17, 2008
by Tim Wall
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