On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Graham Cree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for that, I'll do a bit more investigation into that area. > > I've been carrying out a proof of concept using v1.6.1 and I had a little > play with 1.7 yesterday, the Lucene plugin you mention is the one that has > now been incorporated into xwiki? > > interesting that you mention the Lucene search, the business have some other > requirements on the search which I wasn't sure would be possible. I must > confess to not knowing that much about Lucene but I'm under the impression > (from others in here) that it may be capable of the following. > > - ability to suggest words or phrases if the search detects mispelt words > i.e. like Googles "Did you mean?" feature. > - ability to handle grammar variations i.e. searching for "loans" would > also return "loan". > - natural language searches e.g. "How do I apply for a loan?"; I'm > assuming that this means the search will try for an exact match on this and > then disregard the meaningless words e.g. "do", "i" "for", "a" etc. > > I haven't seen signs of these features in xwiki's implementation of Lucene, > do you know if it could handle these? > > Any comments would be appreciated.
As far as I know yes it should be possible to do this using Lucene but the the current XWiki Lucene plugin is very minimalistic, we plan to make it standard and more powerful. > > TIA > Graham > > > 2008/12/11 Thomas Mortagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Graham Cree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > Thanks for your reply Ricardo, >> > >> > I had a quick look at the Virtual Servers & EM, but I figure if I setup 3 >> > virtual wikis i.e. one for each site, I'd presumably have to replicate >> the >> > common content into each wiki - so that it will appear in the search >> > results, when a user searches the wiki? >> >> Using Lucene search plugin you can search on all the wiks at the same >> time. Look at >> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/LuceneSearch?text=lucene&x=0&y=0 >> for example. >> >> In a wiki farm, the wikis can "communicat" with each other meaning >> that you can link other wikis content (with the syntax: [A link on >> wiki "wikiname">wikiname:SomeSpace;SomePage]) and you can also have >> rights on a wiki for user or group from another wikis etc... >> >> > >> > One thing I'd toyed with was using a single xwiki database, then >> deploying 4 >> > seperate (one for each country, and one for agents) instances of the >> xwiki >> > application that all use the same database as their source. Then if I >> > created seperate spaces for each country and 1 for common, the content >> would >> > all be in one place, but I still need a way to prevent spaces from being >> > accessible to the public users of different websites. If we used this >> > approach could we define a different public user for each website? >> >> This would be difficult to do because each instance will have it's own >> caches for lot's of thing so when you modify something on a instance >> the other instance will be aware of that. For that you can use cache >> clustering but it's really easier to user XEM for such a use case. >> Plus with XEM you can easily manage he mapping between domain names >> and wikis. >> >> > >> > Cheers >> > Graham >> > >> > >> > 2008/12/11 [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team < >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >> >> Hi Graham, >> >> >> >> If you are looking for consultancy, I am sure http://xwiki.com is the >> >> right place to start with. >> >> >> >> If you are simply asking if what you are looking for is possible with >> >> XWiki, I think yes. I think it is worth you take a look to Virtual >> >> servers (http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/FAQ/HowToSetupVirtualWikis >> ) >> >> and XWiki Enterprise Manager >> >> (http://manager.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/). >> >> >> >> XWiki has a huge number of features, many of them not obvious by now for >> >> a regular user like me, that allow fine grained access control and a >> >> complete separation between business rules, presentation and data. >> >> >> >> I think we need a better understanding of the available tools and a lot >> >> of imagination to put things together! :-) >> >> >> >> Hope this helps, >> >> >> >> Ricardo >> >> >> >> creegers wrote: >> >> > I'm currently trying to measure XWIKI against some business >> requirements; >> >> our >> >> > business are basically looking for a simple WIKI that we can use to >> store >> >> > corporate/enterprise knowledge in a single place and make available to >> >> the >> >> > public via our websites and internally to our customer service agents. >> >> > >> >> > For a little more background to the requirements, the business is a >> >> > financial institution that provides loan products in different >> countries. >> >> > Each country currently has their own website (served on different >> >> domains, >> >> > with no obvious links to others), customers can apply for financial >> >> products >> >> > and administer their accounts through the sites, the terminology used >> to >> >> > describe the products is the same regardless of the country, however >> the >> >> > business rules e.g. application process, interest rates is/can be >> >> different. >> >> > >> >> > The business want to expose the content deemed as publicly available >> >> through >> >> > a FAQ/WIKI section on each website, however they don't wish other >> >> countries >> >> > content to be displayed on that website. >> >> > >> >> > Our customer service agents should be able to search the entire WIKI >> when >> >> > dealing with customers phone enquiries, they also wish there to be >> more >> >> > internal information available to the agents. >> >> > >> >> > I'm struggling to think of a way to achieve this using XWIKI and would >> be >> >> > grateful of any advice. >> >> > >> >> > Thanks in advance >> >> > Graham >> >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Ricardo RodrÃguez >> >> Your EPEC Network ICT Team >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> users mailing list >> >> users@xwiki.org >> >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > users mailing list >> > users@xwiki.org >> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Thomas Mortagne >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> users@xwiki.org >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
