I'm having some problems with searching in version 3.2.5, and am unsure 
if they're known bugs, or bits of the config I've messed up. I'm also 
after some clarification on some things not clearly documented.

Although I have toyed with mNoGo in the past, it was missing a few 
features important to us. I've recently installed 3.2.5, which 
supposedly has some of these features now supported, but I'm running 
into some problems.

Firstly, indexing an ordinary site, and using the supplied search.cgi, 
with a minimally modified search.htm, I cannot get the "ul" search 
filter/restriction to work. I've followed the docs, but none of my 
searches are sub-searches with this pattern match (they all search the 
entire content each time). What's more, after submitting it, the 
SELECTED option is not retained - although this seems to work for other 
select-style fields.

Secondly, I've had a stab at configuring it to support searching custom 
META tags, with mixed results. There seems to be little to no docs on 
how to go about this, but what I've tried is to add some "Section"s for 
each tag, preceeding the tag name with "meta.". eg;

   Section  meta.modified           11    128
   Section  meta.modified.position  12    128
   Section  meta.modified.email     13    128

This seems to've worked to a degree; Searches will now search these 
fields. However, these seem to be global, and I can't figure out how to 
enable or disable them, or how to change the priority weights for them.

The docs talk about using Section in conjunction with "wf", but it's 
rather confusing. Hmmm, actually, the main thing that threw me was that 
the example Section declarations are all on one line in the docs, but 
viewing the HTML source, they're on separate lines. And if that's the 
case, then I always need to set a wf field, with one character per 
Section? What if I have 50 Sections?

(It would be nice to be able to assign multiple META tags to being the 
same section, where they are related info, or synonyms for the same 
field...)

I think I'll have to experiment with this a bit more...

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. Trevor Phillips             -           http://jurai.murdoch.edu.au/ . 
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