Can't search for words with ampersands nor apostrophes - returns 0 results
Rhino - August 11, 2008 - 08:00
| Project: | Views Fast Search |
| Version: | 5.x-2.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
I'm having a problem with views fast search.
I have several hundred items in my database that are named by brand names, which often contain ampersands or apostrophes. Think McDonald's , AT&T, Mike's Hard lemonade, Marks&Spencer and so on.
If you search on "Mike's" or McDonald's" you will get no results. Same with AT&T. Shorter searcher like "mike" brings in everything with "mike" in it, but just like searching on "AT" instead of AT&T this is not intuitive for the user and the results are drowned in hundreds of other irrelevant returns.
Can views fast search learn what ampersands and apostrophe's are? I'm guessing this is a feature request since it looks like views does this by design.
#1
Is this by design?
#2
I really would like to know if:
Views fast search can learn what ampersands and apostrophe's are so that we may search on words with ampersands and apostrophe's in them?
I think this is important. I can't possibly be the only one.
#3
Please compare the behavior between VFS and Drupal's core search. I'm wondering if VFS doesn't parse the search string properly and if core search has the same problem. Please try searching for "AT&T" in both VFS and on the Drupal core search page (/search), and see neither one finds it, or if Drupal's core search finds it.
#4
Core search finds ampersands and apostrophe's properly - VFS doesn't find anything. The same search (McDonald's for example) brings up 52 pages of results in core search and 0 results in VFS.