[Zope-CMF] Search results with portal_catalog - need a strategy

[Tres Seaver]

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 19:39, Peter McMillan wrote:
> I have what should be a simple objective. I'd like to search on the indexes
> of Title, Description and Summary. I have 191 documents in the site.
> 
> When I search, I'm returning all 191 documents. I should be getting a
> smaller search result. If someone could give some pointers, I'd appreciate
> it. 
> 
> I'm using the stock search facilities within the Portal (Zope 2.5.1/CMF1.4).
> 
> My indexes:
> Date                    FieldIndex
> Description         KeywordIndex
> Subject               KeywordIndex
> Title                      KeywordIndex
> Type                    FieldIndex
> Bobobase_modification_time  FieldIndex
> Id                          FieldIndex
> Meta_type              FieldIndex
> 

You probably want a ZCTextIndex on 'Title' and 'Description': 
KeywordIndex is really only useful for searching specific values (like
FieldIndex), where the method / attribute being indexed returns / is a
sequence of values:  'Subject' is the canonical example for this type of
index.  Your 'Date' index is likely not to be as useful as you might
think:  'Date' actually returns a string.  You might consider adding
a DateIndex on 'modified' and / or 'created'.

Tres.
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