Issue: Wiki search does not find terms with - in it

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January 22, 2014 9:49 AM

Alfa1

Distinguished Member

Wiki search does not find terms with - in it

If wiki titles consist out of characters & minuses, then the search will consider the title to be separate characters instead of a word. For example: anti-thesis is considered two words instead of one. If we have titles that have several minuses, then it becomes more problematic. It will become impossible to search for those because ' The search could not be completed because the search keywords were too short, too long, or too common.'
It happens that a large number of my articles have minuses in the title.

Issue Details

Issue Number 3534

Issue Type Bug

Project VaultWiki 4.x Series

Category Search

Status Forum Bug

Priority 3 - Loss of Functionality

Affected Version 4.0.0 Gamma 1

Fixed Version (none)

Milestone VaultWiki 4 Gamma X

Software DependencyXenForo 1.x

License TypePaid

Users able to reproduce bug 0

Users unable to reproduce bug 0

Attachments 0

Assigned Users (none)

Tags (none)

January 22, 2014 10:58 AM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

The live search (title exact matching) function finds hyphenated titles just fine. This is the only search function that has code written by us to do text/title matching. Otherwise, the search is passed to XenForo's internal search engine as is. If there is a special syntax for searching hyphenated words in XenForo, I don't know it. I tried searching "by-product" with quotes on their official site and only got results for "product".

Please find out if there is a proper way to search hyphenated terms in XenForo. If there is, we would be happy to pre-parse queries through the wiki search bar so that it complies.

Just checked and vBulletin automatically treats hyphenated terms as 1 term already, so no special handling is required for that search engine.

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February 26, 2014 11:05 AM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

I'm closing this since it can be considered a bug in XenForo's search engine. If you would like this to be resolved, please report the issue to the XenForo devs.

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Issue: Wiki search does not find terms with - in it

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