[ic] Setting up swish-e to search static pages

[Gary Norton]

Ton Verhagen wrote:

>Quoting Gary Norton <gnorton at broadgap.com>:
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>>I have a customer who has several static pages (specifically PDF's) on 
>>their site that they would like to be able to search. I would like to use 
>>the swish-e engine for this via the Vend::Swish module.
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>>I have added:
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>>Require module Vend::Swish
>>AddDirective Swish hash
>>Variable swish Vend::Swish
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>>in my interchange.cfg (as well as uncommented the ::logDebug statements in 
>>the Swish.pm). Swish-e is also installed on the server.
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>>Can someone give me some direction in setting this up? I am not quite sure 
>>what the next step should be. Do I need to make catalog specific changes?
>>
>>Also, if there is a better way you recommend doing this, I am open to ideas.
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>Brief how-to Swish:
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>1. Install Swish-e on your server
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>2. Create a Swish-e configuration file (where to find files, which files to 
>index, etc.)
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>3. Run Swish-e and generate an index file (e.g. pages.index)
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>4. Tell Interchange catalog where to find said file
>Add fthe following line to catalog.cfg:
>E.g.:
>Swish index products/pages.index
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Thank you. I was missing "Swish index products/pages.index" in the 
catalog.cfg .

For reference of others reading I also had to add:

Swish command /usr/bin/swish-e

Gentoo portage installed to a different location than the default used 
by Swish.pm.

>5. Add Swish capability to Interchange.
>Add the following lines to interchange.cfg:
>Require module Vend::Swish
>AddDirective Swish hash
>Variable swish Vend::Swish
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>6. Restart IC server
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>7. Create a search: Interchange ITL and st=swish
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I was missing st=swish as well.

>8. Display the results: Interchange ITL
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>See the documentation that comes with Swish-e
>http://swish-e.org
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>Good luck !
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This is working now. Thank you very much for your help. I do have one 
more question however. Do you know of a way to reference the returned 
results by name? Currently I am using [item-pos 0] [item-pos 1] etc. It 
would make for more readable code if there were names I could reference. 
I have tried the names that I though would work (looked inside Swish.pm) 
but they don't seem to work.

Thanks again,
Gary