enhanced web output

[Wouter]

Dear all,

I'm working on setting up the web output (compose to web). Has anyone had any success at enhancing e.g. the search (full text instead of the out-of-the-box bookmark search), or the UI (expand/collapse button etc)? or is this documented somewhere?

Thanks

Wouter

[SarahPrice]

Wouter,

I am experiencing the same problem. Can you tell me what version you are using? We are using 5.2 M020 release.

Sarah

[Wouter]

Hi Sarah,

Sorry for the extremely late reply. I'm using 5.3.

BRs

Wouter

[BrettMcCorkle]

This is an old thread, but I'm looking at doing this as well. Does anyone have any suggestions on adding search into web output?

[ptc-953926]

Have you looked at Solr?

[BrettMcCorkle]

Thanks for the quick reply. I didn't know about Solr, but in looking at it, I think that it's bigger than what I'm looking to do. I'm just looking for a simple text search within the scope of an individual web output document.

I don't need something that will index across an entire library of content. I'm looking for search that can be imbedded into the web output and be used regardless of the document's location. Since the web output creates a directory of multiple files, the users can't just push Ctrl+F and search the entire document. Is there anything that will function on a smaller scale like that?

[thendricks]

The simplest, dirtiest, most basic search I was able to find is at the link below. It's a standalone exe file that you can call from the command like to index multiple files. I've implemented this until we can move to solr (not approved for use yet by corporate).

As I said, it works, but isn't something to use on large scale or with hopes of getting impressive search features. Some customization is possible, but even that took some work to set up.

[naglists]

If you own Publishing Engine, one of its modules will do this. Digital Media
Publisher (DMP), the technology under the Help will do this. BUT it's hard
to know what you mean by "smaller scale." I think HTML search across
multiple files embedded into the web output is, by definition, sorta heavy
lifting. DMP creates output that is either self contained (run off of CD or
DVD) or install to a computer, or distribute through a web server / java
servlet container (as a WAR file or web application folder) ... think Apache
Tomcat.

Do you have an example of a small system like this you can refer to? That
might help folks get an idea of what you're thinking.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Brett McCorkle <
brett.mccorkle@erieinsurance.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the quick reply. I didn't know about Solr, but in looking at
> it, I think that it's bigger than what I'm looking to do. I'm just looking
> for a simple text search within the scope of an individual web output
> document.
>
> I don't need something that will index across an entire library of content.
> I'm looking for search that can be imbedded into the web output and be used
> regardless of the document's location. Since the web output creates a
> directory of multiple files, the users can't just push Ctrl+F and search the
> entire document. Is there anything that will function on a smaller scale
> like that?
>

[BrettMcCorkle]

Paul,

Thanks for the DMP suggestion. I have looked into that in the past, and I've never really felt it fits our needs. I don't want to provide an executable to end-users, our goal is to provide HTMLoutput from multiple documents in one large repository (this repository already has search indexing). I needanadditional search option once a user has opened the web output so they can search within that document without going back out to the repository.

That being said, the search DMP provides is exactly what I'm looking for, but the way the DMP provides the content (through an exe, WAR, etc.) doesn't fit the way we're looking to deliver our content. It is a great option for physical media delivery though.

Trevor,

Thanks for the link to that program. I messed around with that and it gets VERY close to what I'm looking for. The end result is pretty much exactly what I'm looking for, an index and search box for the web output from Arbortext. However, I want the Publishing Engine to automaticallyinclude this in it's output. Were you able to get the Publishing Engine to call this from the command line, or do you have to execute that manually? I'd prefer something I could customize easier, but that may be a pipe dream.