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Older Versions => jDownloads 3.2 (Support ended) => General => Topic started by: janman1021 on 07.11.2016 13:56:45

Title: Fulltext search
Post by: janman1021 on 07.11.2016 13:56:45
Is it possible to do a Fulltext search

Searched is in fulltext index, which is created after each document upload. Supported formats to search in are: xlsx, pptx, docx, doc, ppt, pdf, xls, csv
Title: Re: Fulltext search
Post by: ColinM on 07.11.2016 19:52:49
Hi
Could you explain a bit more please as I do not quite understand.  Are you wanting to search in jDownloads descriptions or titles or what?
Colin
Title: Re: Fulltext search
Post by: janman1021 on 08.11.2016 09:15:28
Hi Colin
Thank you for your quick response.
I would like to search inside the pdf documents.
Something like the following extension.
https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/jifile
Thanks
Jan
Title: Re: Fulltext search
Post by: ColinM on 08.11.2016 15:05:35
Hi
jDownloads does not search in the contents of the downloadable files itself. But having just briefly read the JiFile documentation it would appear feasible to use a search tool as all the jD downloads start from a common directory (typically /yoursite/jdownloads) so if you set jdownloads as the JiFile "Filesystem path" then you could first checkout JiFile. The Area Name in the JiFile plugin could be set to say Downloads.  All the downloads are regular files as all the other parts associated with each Download are either in the database or stored as images, videos or audio files in other directories.

When you have that going OK then please come back and then we can look at seeing how to best fit into the jD Search function.

Colin