Posted by PeterZ on January 18, 2009 at 1:45pm
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| Project: | Views Fast Search |
| Version: | 5.x-2.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Issue Summary
I've figured out how to do the Views Fast Search using Views 2.x in Drupal 6.x.
But there is no support for vfs_ranking_nodetype, allowing weighting by node type.
Any possibility to port this to Drupal 6.x?
Thanks!
Comments
#1
Hi Peter could you please describe how you got this working in v6? Or perhaps post the modified module? Thanks
#2
I did not create a new module. Views 2 in Drupal 6.x has virtually everything from Views Fast Search built in. However, it doesn't include functionality from the separate vfs_ranking_nodetype module which allowed for more granular scoring/ranking of search results by node type (that is, you could weight some node types to show higher in results than others).
To get the main functionality working, I believe I imported my view from 5.x to 6.x when I did the upgrade. I had to reset some of the fields. I then had to include search: score in the view fields and in the view sort criteria. Then I went into admin > site configuration > search settings to tune the search score / prioritization of results.
Another Drupal 6.x option to get more granular control over search order of dispaly in keyword search results is the solr apache module, or the acquia search hosted implementation of this (which is still in beta).
#3
perfect.. thanks :)