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Feature #10294
openRedmine search: improve, make better and smarter. (title matching first, then content)
Status:
New
Priority:
High
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Category:
Search engine
Target version:
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Description
The problem¶
It's really hard to find something useful in large Wiki.
Now Redmine search seems to display results ordered by last modification date.
Why it's not good?¶
Here are examples:- There is a page called Guide in Redmine Wiki. I want to find it.
- I open Wiki, and type "Guide" in search box
- Redmine opens results page
- What do I see? Wiki page I was looking for is not even on first page. =(
- Even if check "search in Titles only", result is still awful
Suggestions¶
I suggest to display results in following order:- First, exact Title matching (ordered by last modification date)
- Then, partial title matching (ordered by last modification date)
- Then, exact matching to description (or, maybe (not sure), some other fields, including custom)
- Then partial matching to description (ordered by last modification date)
- Issues
- Wiki pages
- etc
Why should we change search?¶
Because this will greatly improve usability. Search is most important thing working with issues and wiki.
Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang over 12 years ago
- Tracker changed from Defect to Feature
Updated by Jens Krämer almost 9 years ago
I implemented something like that for PostgreSQL in a plugin by using the built in fulltext indexing and scoring functions.
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