RoboHelp 6 Search Limitations?

Highlighting?..... that's it?

How will the search engine in RoboHelp 7 compare to ZoomSearch?

Thanks for the replies. I'm going to take a look at it again when I have some time. I did print the instructions. I guess I'm just not totally understanding.

Currently, I am using a javascript search function (JSE Internal Search Engine), and it is actually working great for me. Perhaps the only downside is that you have to manually enter in your search pages (title, url, description, keywords), but this is just fine for me. Every time I create a new page, it just takes 2 minutes to add it to the .js search code. I have over 400 pages on my site that I've made searchable and can control exactly what I want the description to be and what the keywords should be. It's fast and free.

I can see the benefit of using Zoom search though so it will automatically index the pages. So manually putting your pages in the search engine may not work for everyone, but it's worth checking out.

What I still don't understand is how a company as big as Adobe gets away with offering such a terrible search engine - unless they've fixed this with ver 6? It makes absolutely no sense to me that people need to go purchase an external search engine like ZoomSearch, after spending big $$$ on an Adobe product. I quickly got lots of complaints from my users that the search fuction sucked, but everyone is much happier now that I've implemented the JS search.

MergeThis has picked up on a point I missed. You are trying to run this from the TOC. What I always ask people when they tell me they cannot get something on my site to work is firstly to try it in a small project and second not to attempt any variations.

The small project is simply to avoid messing up your live project and the request to do it my way first is to prove to yourself it does work. Then you know that when it doesn't work done another way, it is the variation that is the problem.

Welcome to the forum.

Bob it's too late for me to look at this tonight and I am in a meeting pretty much all day tomorrow.

1] Go through the instructions again very slowly. Have you printed them? I often find just doing that and ticking things off finds the problem.

2] If that doesn't help contact me via my site and send me your ZoomSearch configuration file. In your email let me know how big the project is zipped up.

I'll look as soon as I can.

I'm having trouble getting ZoomSearch to work. I've tried to follow the instructions on your site.

I'm getting 'Page Not Found' because the results pages are pointing to:
"FOLDER..!SSL!/RoboInfo_Output/pagename.htm" instead of the real url (FOLDER/pagename.htm".... so I think I'm pointing to wrong folders when I create my search index, but I've tried several ways of doing it. It must be easy to fix, but I can't figure out.

1. In my project under HTML files I created a new folder "search_files".
2. In my published output folder, I created a folder with the same name.
3. I ran ZoomSearch and with Offline mode, navigated to my Project folder.
4. For the base url, I selected ../ (not sure if this is correct, but my search_files folder in the Output folder is two levels down from my main Project folder.)
5. I did Javascript method and for Output options, created index files in the search_files folder in my Output folder (not sure if this is correct, but tried other options too.)
6. Under HTML folders, highlighted search_files and imported search.html that is located in the Output folder.
7. I added my search.html page to my TOC and published.
8. The correct search results will come up, but when I click on the links I get Page Not Found because the path is pointing to my Output folder.

From this, can you see what I'm doing wrong??? The longer I spend trying to fix this, the more confused and frustrated I get!
THANKS!

Welcome to the forum.

It depends on what you mean by multiple help sources. If you create a merged webhelp setup, as described on my site, the search will work across the whole set up. Also it would work if you installed any one of the child outputs.

If you are talking about a number of quite separate outputs, then each one would have a search but you would not have a search across the whole lot. To do something like that you would need a third party search ZoomSearch is one tool that can do what you want and my site describes how to set that up.