[Building Sakai] Who is using the Search Tool?

[David Haines]

I believe it searches all sites that have search installed and returns only results you have permission to view.  There is a way to limit search in one site to only search a specific subset of other sites but it is obscure and hard to configure.

- Dave

David Haines
CTools Developer
Digital Media Commons
University of Michigan 
dlhaines at umich.edu



On Mar 19, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Johns, Cheryl wrote:

> Thanks David.
>  
> That’s how we see our implementation going.  I think we would selectively install it on sites that requested it, but stealth it for all others.
>  
> Our scale isn’t quite yours, but it’s growing rapidly. 
>  
> So, the search will search all Sakai sites or just the one it is installed in?  Curious as to how it functions.
>  
> From: David Haines [mailto:dlhaines at umich.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:28 AM
> To: Johns, Cheryl
> Cc: Developers Sakai-Dev
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Who is using the Search Tool?
>  
> We use search in a limited way at Michigan.  It is only installed in a few sites and we run the actual searches on a separate host we keep out of the cluster. Running search on each server seemed to have impractical resource requirements at our scale when we looked at it a couple of years ago. We are just unclear on the practical implications of letting everybody use it on all content at our scale so we don't have a plan to expand it's usage.
>  
> Search does a good job at covering a lot of the data entered in Sakai including announcements, wiki entries, and uploaded files. 
>  
> - Dave
>  
> David Haines
> CTools Developer
> Digital Media Commons
> University of Michigan 
> dlhaines at umich.edu
>  
> 
> 
>  
> On Mar 19, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Johns, Cheryl wrote:
> 
> 
> We’re looking to investigate the Search tool and I’ve found some info on it from Ian Boston on Confluence.  Who is using it in practice?
>  
> Does it have the capability to even search documents that are stored on the file system or just database contents?
>  
> Cheryl Johns
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