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

[Ton Verhagen]

>Quoting Gary Norton <gnorton at broadgap.com>:
>Ton Verhagen wrote:
>>Quoting Gary Norton <gnorton at broadgap.com>:
>>>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.
>>>
>>>I have added:
>>>
>>>Require module Vend::Swish
>>>AddDirective Swish hash
>>>Variable swish Vend::Swish
>>>
>>>in my interchange.cfg (as well as uncommented the ::logDebug statements 
>>>in the Swish.pm). Swish-e is also installed on the server.
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>
>>Brief how-to Swish:
>>
>>1. Install Swish-e on your server
>>
>>2. Create a Swish-e configuration file (where to find files, which files 
>>to index, etc.)
>>
>>3. Run Swish-e and generate an index file (e.g. pages.index)
>>
>>4. Tell Interchange catalog where to find said file
>>Add fthe following line to catalog.cfg:
>>E.g.:
>>Swish index products/pages.index
>>
>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
>>
>>6. Restart IC server
>>
>>7. Create a search: Interchange ITL and st=swish
>>
>
>I was missing st=swish as well.
>
>>8. Display the results: Interchange ITL
>>
>>See the documentation that comes with Swish-e
>>http://swish-e.org
>>
>>Good luck !
>>
>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.

The following parameters are available in a search list:
code
score
url
title
filesize
mod_date

So, on a results page you could do:

[search-region]
[search-list]
[item-param code] -- [item-param score]  -- [item-param title] -- 
[item-param url] -- [item-param mod_date] -- [item-param filesize]
[/search-list]
[/search-region]


Best regards,

Ton

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