I am porting my 5.0 updated version of the Swish-e Indexer and hope to have that up here in the new couple of weeks. In addition to 5.0 compatibility, I would like to see the following new features:

-- better support for showing a snippet of the document with keywords highlighted (this works for pdf documents in 4.7 version)
-- access controls for the files (handling of private/public files, perhaps associating pdf information with nodes and using node_access)
-- consideration of possible integration with regular search as an option. wouldn't it be cool to have pdf document text be indexed and sorted along with the rest of the site and called through the drupal search? if this fully integrates perhaps we would only need the swish-e filters and could attach the text to the nodes....

i was going to take the lead on the above features and if there are other features of interest or any code that implements those features we could post + discuss it here.

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alexh commented

Hi,
I'm happy to see this activity. These new features seem to be like the things I was looking for, especially access control is a must for me.
I wonder if this will support both file attachments and CCK file fields (or any other file module)? (I haven't tried the 4.7 version)

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jondoesdrupal commented

Hi there,

I'm upgrading my team's intranet site from 4.6 to 5 (i.e. doing it properly now that I know better!) and our most important thing is decent documentation management. This module is core to that, so if there's any way I can help out with it then I'm ready to put some time in.

Re: your points, the first and third are both things that I'd thought I'd like to see and was considering tackling myself. Point 2 seems good too and was something I was looking for before (not a problem now that I am implementing our new documentation library on a one node > one document basis).

One idea just off the top of my head - how about some sort of control of where in the filesystem files are stored? I don't know if I'm unique in my situtation, but so that my team can access the files easily from their desktops I'm going to either share the storage area using Samba or sync it somewhere else that can be mounted. Either way, for this purpose it would be useful to be able to enforce some sort of organisation on a filesystem level.

Just an idea. Quite possibly of absolutely no use to anyone else and not worth it!

Cheers,

Jon

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pearcec commented

I need all the described functionality. I am going to test the 5.0 code you have now. When I get another developer I can probably have him help out with some of these features.

Subscribing.

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budda
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How are things progressing with the 5.x features proposed?

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populist commented
Status: Active » Fixed

The search_excerpt stuff was added several months ago and is a huge improvement. Today I added support for public/private file types. Integrating with the normal search is a little trickier because we are really searching over files but the regular search is searching over nodes. I am going to shoot for this feature in a 6.0 version.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.