Site Search
Hi,
I may have missed this, but is there anyway to implement at site search facility within a harmonyapp site? I can't say I've seen anyone else do this.
Thanks
John
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2 Posted by John Nunemaker on 11 Mar, 2010 12:56 PM
Not at this time. It is something we plan on doing.
3 Posted by Jared Christensen on 19 Mar, 2010 04:04 AM
Do you have an ETA on this? I have a client that would be perfect for Harmony but they require a search. The RFP is not due until April.
4 Posted by John Nunemaker on 19 Mar, 2010 03:12 PM
We don't do ETA's. I would make plans based on our current feature set.
Is the search something that could run through google or another
service for now?
5 Posted by Jared Christensen on 19 Mar, 2010 03:32 PM
That's ok, I'm really happy with what you guys have done so far. I will let you know if I find a work around.
6 Posted by John Nunemaker on 19 Mar, 2010 03:45 PM
Cool. Do tell if you find anything. Search is on the list but it is a
big list. :)
7 Posted by Jared Christensen on 23 Mar, 2010 09:49 PM
I have been playing around with Googles Custom Search (http://www.google.com/cse/) and it seams like a solution that will work well for now. You can customize the look with CSS, it's not the most intuitive product but I have a good handle on it now. The only down side is you have to pay $100 a year to get rid of the ads, but that's not that bad.
Support Staff 8 Posted by Steve Smith on 23 Mar, 2010 09:51 PM
Great to know, Jared. Thanks for letting us know! We have some great ideas for search, but, as you know, we've got plenty of things on our to-do list. I'm stoked you've found a satisfactory solution in the meantime. Cheers!
9 Posted by Torey Heinz on 29 Apr, 2010 11:40 AM
Google has a search API
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/
Here is a tutorial using Jquery to access it
http://progtuts.info/211/ajax-and-google-integrated-search/
Also a live demo
http://progtuts.info/downloads/AJAXGoogleSearch/
The problem with this approach is that you need to wait for Google to index your site. I am playing with an idea, of creating a Solr based site search tool. You could pass it your sitemap.xml file, and using Nokogiri I would parse each page. Then using solr I could index the page elements, giving greater weight to header and title tags.
I did something similar with a large static website I inherited, I parsed all the html files to create a sitemap file, and an "inventory" file that gave the title, desc, and heading tags.
This would be service that I would access with javascript like above, because I need it on the static site I mentioned and I would like to use with Harmony.
10 Posted by John Nunemaker on 29 Apr, 2010 11:37 PM
Thanks for posting all that Torey. Good information. Site search is definitely one of the big features on our radar.
11 Posted by Kyle Fox on 26 Oct, 2010 06:06 PM
bump
Any updates on this? I have a few possible sites that would be perfect for Harmony, except they require a search feature.
Thanks!
12 Posted by Torey Heinz on 26 Oct, 2010 06:12 PM
What requires searching?
13 Posted by John Nunemaker on 26 Oct, 2010 06:27 PM
Nothing new on this and there will not be for a while. Search is a monster feature. For now we recommend integrating google or something.
14 Posted by Kyle Fox on 26 Oct, 2010 06:33 PM
@Torey - I need my website searchable :P Pages, blog posts, etc. And I'm not really interested in relying on Google to index my site and build out my own search.
@john - Understandable. It is a monster feature for sure. Have you guys considered doing it iteratively, and starting (really) small? Even the ability to search item titles would be a large win.
15 Posted by Torey Heinz on 26 Oct, 2010 06:41 PM
OK, here's a shot from the hip.
How about creating a template that would return a json formated index of the site's content, and then using Javascript to search it?
16 Posted by Kyle Fox on 26 Oct, 2010 07:00 PM
That's actually a neat idea, and quite simple. I might try something like that, thanks!
Steve Smith closed this discussion on 16 Nov, 2010 02:45 PM.