Forward Search for EPiServer
Forward Search for EPiServer is a module that closely integrates to the EPiServer Product family, delivering powerful search abilities to EPiServer based solutions.
Forward Search has a similar focus as EPiServer, helping customers create high quality solutions easy and fast. Forward Search is a product based solution, giving fast or even complex and flexible implementation for Enterprise needs.
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Highlighted Search Features
- Faceted Search and Navigation
- Contextual Search – Combined search in both unstructured and structured content
- Custom Thesaurus – Synonym handling
- “Did you mean?” – Suggest alternative search word
- Automated synonym handling based on “Did you mean?” feature
- Type Ahead – Suggest search word from index word list
- User search behaviour tracking and reporting included
- Optional Multilingual Thesaurus – Synonym dictionaries covering 25 languages
- Optional Geo Search – Suggest relevant result near a location or sort on distance
Forward Search for EPiServer is closely integrated with EPiServer including secure search across multiple sources of various types of content based on EPiServer’s security model, ensuring rights of content on user or group level. Sources could also include non EPiServer websites and solutions.
The Forward Search Administration client is directly available from within for EPiServer allowing editors, administrators and developers to setup, configure and tune the Forward Search or to access relevant information such as Search statistics, logs etc. The administration client inherits roles from EPiServer and roles, client languages and features can all be customised to fit different needs.
The module is crawler based and includes EPiServer API integration for Event based indexing (publishing event) and for retrieving the EPiServer security model. Queries and results are rendered with EPiServer Web Controls, which are supplied as samples, making it easy and fast to customize.
Forward Search for EPiServer supports EPiServer version 5 and 6. Read more about Forward Search for EPiServer.
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