Recent Updates

  • Updated on: Nov 16, 2021

    How do I perform an advanced search?

    The Search Tool is driven by an index that contains multiple sub indexes. When using the tool for basic search, only 2 of these indexes are used: the context index, and the content index. The content index contains a stored and tokenized full text index of a digested form of the content. This means that a Word document uploaded to Resources will have had all its text extracted and indexed, whereas a video package may have had only the metadata indexed. When the search results are returned, it is this content that is shown with the matching terms highlighted.

    The context index provides a keyword index of the source of the content. This is the worksite or course which contains the content. When the search tool performs a basic search, it adds a search term of +content:<currentsiteid> where <currentsiteid> is the context or site id where the search is being performed. This can be translated as "results must come from the current site".

    You can search for terms within any of the indexes. For example to search only in announcements, you can use the search terms +tool:announcement +content:cowslip which will only return announcements containing the word cowslip.

    The index currently contains the following named indexes.

    • content: A tokenized, stored index of the digested content of the search documents
    • context: A keyword stored index of the source context of the search document.
    • tool: A keyword stored index of the tool name producing the search document.
    • title: A tokenized stored index of the title of the search document.
    • reference: A keyword stored index of the Sakai Entity reference.
  • Updated on: Nov 16, 2021

    What is the Search tool?

    Search allows you to search content created by tools within a worksite or course. It achieves this by creating an index of all content that other tools make available to the search tool. This index is updated automatically, so as content is added to the worksite or course, it will be indexed.

    For example, if the worksite or course has an Email Archive, as emails are posted to the list, the content of those emails will be indexed and become searchable in the search tool. Or, if the site has documents uploaded to Resources, the documents will become searchable.

    Search indexes many different types of content, including messages, web pages in HTML format, documents in DOC, PDF, or RTF format, spreadsheets in XLS format, and Wiki pages.

  • Updated on: Nov 16, 2021

    How do I add a rubric to a forum topic?