SearchApplication

Search Application

Allows searching on the full wiki using wildcards, searching by space, getting search result RSS feeds and more.

The search page is available by navigating to the Web Search page. The Panels applications also provides a Search Panel that makes it easy to access the search feature. For example when using the Albatross skin, the search Panels looks like this:

Search Results without Admin Rights

If you don't have administrative rights you'll see the following type of result when you make a search. It lists all the pages matching your search criteria.

Search Results with Admin Rights

If you have administrative rights you'll see more options. Namely you'll be able to delete, copy, rename and set the rights for the page, as shown below. You'll also be able to see pages that are restricted to administrators.

Searching Spaces and RSS feeds

You can restrict the search to a specific space (only documents in this space will then be searched) using the space search box.

You can also subscribe to a RSS Feed on the results of your search (from then on you will be informed when the search returns a new result).

Search using Lucene

XWiki allows searching using Lucene. The XWiki Lucene Plugin index es all the content of your XWiki instance(s). The Lucene search has several benefits over the default search:

• It indexes attachments (such as PDFs or MS Word documents) searchable. It does not replace the search page itself but rather makes more content available for searching.
• It provides a scoring for the search results.
• It offers pagination when there are lots of results.
• It scales well when there are lots of documents in the wiki.
• It supports multi wikis.
• It supports a strong query syntax.

You can access the Lucene search page directly by navigating to the Lucene Search page or by clicking on the link at the bottom of the Web Search page.