iirc, it depends on the names of your Areas in your Page Type templates. I believe 'Main' will always be indexed, but most others are not. Can't remember which ones are indexed, or where you add other Areas to the list. Maybe someone can jog my memory... :S

Jon

All I really care about is the ''main'' area, but it is not being indexed. I've tested it over and over again.

OK, I get it. c5 search doesn't really work at all. If want to use the search function I'll have to employ google or some other 3rd party.

That's a shame, I'm really beginning to tire of google.

a common mistake is to name the main area "main" instead of "Main" (case sensitive) inside the template. this could cause it to skip your content as well.

C

Oh it definitely works. But there are some required steps, a big one is that you need to go to the dashboard/sitemap.

Then go to Page Search and on the left above the search field you'll see a 'setup index' link. Click that and you'll get a list of area names to include in search, this is where you can add more than 'Main' to the list. (you can whitelist or balcklist too)

Second, you should go to the system & maintenance tab, in the Jobs tab check the 'Index Search Engine' job and run it.

Once done you should see search results. For some reason some installs don't require these steps to be completed up front.

And don't forget, with MySQL full text search, your search string must be a minimum of 4 characters to work.

Jon

Oh my goodness. I had no idea.

Funny how you can spend hours trying to solve a problem only to discover you were looking in the wrong place.

Thank you so much for the tips. They will go in my c5 101 manual.

Great instructions!

Found just what I needed an all is working great. Thank you.

Why is it that when I enter a search term of two words it does not find it even though the exact words are in my site? Works fine for one word searches.

Thanks.
Spencer

Spencer - have a look here re: using more than one word in search...

http://www.concrete5.org/index.php?cID=101844...