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Some very impressive entries from Adaptavist!
If you guys get some spare time t...
Some very impressive entries from Adaptavist!
If you guys get some spare time to develop this further, it'd be great if the search page could be extended too - a few modifications could really help get the most out of the benefits that this plug-in will already yield. For example:
The ability to include/exclude synonyms from the search
A message similar to when matches are found in other spaces, e.g. "There are 'x' matches containing synonyms for <terms>. Include these matches"
Different coloured highlighting for synonyms in result excerpts
An option to assign a lower priority to synonyms than search terms
Getting a bit on the fancy-side, but an AJAX picker similar to the labels interface would be very cool - e.g. if a user searches for 'produce' there might be synonyms 'fruit' and 'vegetables', but the user may not want to see results that include 'vegetables'.
It'd also be great if this could (optionally) support external look-ups, e.g. grab synonyms for search terms from an online thesaurus rather than requiring the user to explicitly configure them.
But even with the current functionality I see this being very useful - well done!
The ability to include/exclude synonyms from the search: I could do this on a pa...
The ability to include/exclude synonyms from the search: I could do this on a page by page basis through labels (e.g. a no-synonyms label), or perhaps through a hidden macro which leaves a marker - but this wouldn't be per-synonym, more a blanket "ignore this page" marker.
To tell the search itself to ignore synonyms is much harder - as the synonyms are dumped into the compound search text which is determined during indexing, not searching. This architectural issue also causes problems with the other items in your list.
They are technically doable by overriding the search form but it's a much bigger project rather than a small annex ... it's not likely something that we'll do ourselves, but if someone finds a business case and commissions the work then it's something that we (or others) could consider.
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Synonym Plugin
— A search extractor for Confluence to inject synonyms for acronyms, words or phrases into the index to aid with searching
Comments (3)
May 07, 2008
Don Willis says:
Cool. This is something I've wanted to exist on numerous occasions. Good Luck!Cool. This is something I've wanted to exist on numerous occasions. Good Luck!
May 07, 2008
David Dembo says:
Some very impressive entries from Adaptavist! If you guys get some spare time t...Some very impressive entries from Adaptavist!
If you guys get some spare time to develop this further, it'd be great if the search page could be extended too - a few modifications could really help get the most out of the benefits that this plug-in will already yield. For example:
It'd also be great if this could (optionally) support external look-ups, e.g. grab synonyms for search terms from an online thesaurus rather than requiring the user to explicitly configure them.
But even with the current functionality I see this being very useful - well done!
May 07, 2008
Dan Hardiker says:
The ability to include/exclude synonyms from the search: I could do this on a pa...The ability to include/exclude synonyms from the search: I could do this on a page by page basis through labels (e.g. a no-synonyms label), or perhaps through a hidden macro which leaves a marker - but this wouldn't be per-synonym, more a blanket "ignore this page" marker.
To tell the search itself to ignore synonyms is much harder - as the synonyms are dumped into the compound search text which is determined during indexing, not searching. This architectural issue also causes problems with the other items in your list.
They are technically doable by overriding the search form but it's a much bigger project rather than a small annex ... it's not likely something that we'll do ourselves, but if someone finds a business case and commissions the work then it's something that we (or others) could consider.