[Tiki-devel] Question about Search Index

[Duane K. <dke...@po...>]

Hi Folks,

Just wondering how exactly Search Index works and how fields are added.
I'm pretty ludite when it comes to digging into the PHP side of Tiki, so my
exploration of some of the search related Lib files has left my scratching
my head...

Specifically, I'm looking at the fields available for Source Type
"Article".  I've got a site using Unified Search and it would be nice to
include more details in the results listing for Article results.
Contributors and Last Modified Date work great for Blogs, Forums, Wikis,
etc. but fall short for Articles, where the key fields to pull would be
Author (or Author Name, not sure which is the proper field name), Publish
Date, and Published (i.e. is live on the site).

How involved is the process of adding fields to the "Specific" area of the
Search Index matrix?  Is there already activity around expanding the
Article (or other) Source Types in terms of available fields in results?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Duane