By tecdragon on

Hello,

As an admin or any user when I search for content I get zero results.

What do I need to do to get the search function to work?

Please and thank you

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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ambientdrup’s picture

ambientdrup commented

Check your search settings here:

/admin/settings/search

See how much of your site has been indexed - probably a small % if you're not getting any results. To get it to 100% depending on how much content you have you should be able to run cron and this will index your site. You may need to run cron multiple times via your site Status report depending on your cron threshold you have set in your search settings (number of items to index per cron). You basically want to run cron until 100% of your site is indexed.

-backdrifting

tecdragon’s picture

tecdragon commented

Ok thank you for the heads up.

So the site doesn't autoupate entries? Do I have to set a cron for a set period of time? Every minute, every hour, or can it be more granular?

I am new, thanks for the assist

dddave’s picture

dddave commented

Cron needs to be run regularly not only for search indexing. Check the handbook pages for further details. The granularity depends on the needs of your site and what modules use cron.

If you want granular control about what and when cron does something you can check: http://drupal.org/project/elysia_cron

tecdragon’s picture

tecdragon commented

Thank You