Webboard: Sorting Results

Author: Alexander Barkov
Email: [email protected]
Message:
> I need a way to sort results by file type - essentially, in my results are a lot of PDF's and they are showing up before any of the site's actual html pages - I would just like the PDF's to show up AFTER the html web pages.

> 

> Any thoughts? I didn't see anything in the documentation regarding this type of sorting.



You can try the "s" and "su" search parameters.

Have a look here:



http://www.mnogosearch.org/doc33/msearch-doingsearch.html#search-params



First, make sure that you have the "Section Content-Type..." command

in your indexer.conf. For example:



Section Content-Type            12      64



If you don't have it now, you'll need to clean the database

and re-crawl again after adding this section.





Then you can specify ordering in HTML form variables,

for example:



<!-- for ascending order-->

<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="s" VALUE="s"> 

<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="su" VALUE="Content-Type">



or 



<!-- for descending order-->

<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="s" VALUE="S"> 

<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="su" VALUE="Content-Type">





so when you press the submit button, it effectively goes to this URL:



http://www.hostname.com/search.cgi?q=some+words&s=s&su=Content-Type







Also you can try to resolve why you get all PDF documents

ranked higher. Normally it should return mixed HTML and PDF documents.

Please have a look here how to debug core values:



http://www.mnogosearch.org/doc33/msearch-rel.html#score-debug





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