Forward Search for Sitecore
Forward Search for Sitecore is a module that closely integrates to the Sitecore Product family, delivering powerful search abilities to Sitecore based solutions.
Forward Search has a similar focus as Sitecore, 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 Sitecore is closely integrated with Sitecore including secure search across multiple sources of various types of content based on Sitecore’s security model, ensuring rights of content on user or group level. Sources could also include non Sitecore websites and solutions.
The Forward Search Administration client is directly available from within for Sitecore 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 Sitecore and roles, client languages and features can all be customised to fit different needs.
The module is crawler based and includes Sitecore API integration for Event based indexing (publishing event) and for retrieving the Sitecore security model. Queries and results are rendered with Forward Search XSLT helper extension which comes with samples or by applying .Net custom controls, making it easy and fast to customize.
Forward Search for Sitecore supports Sitecore versions 5 and 6, Sitecore Foundry and Sitecore Intranet Portal (SIP).
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