Searching none alphanumeric terms

  • KM02748320
  • 07-Mar-2017
  • 26-Mar-2019

Summary

How to make non alphanumeric characters available for query

Question

Searching non alphanumeric content

Answer

There could be a situation where reviewers are searching for terms that contain non alphanumeric characters such as (#$@!..)
 
These characters by defaut are not indexed and are ignored during the search. To index those character and make them available for query search, a configuraion change must be applied to all Content Engines used by the module.
 
To ensure a nonalphanumeric character is available for querying, specify it in the TangibleCharacters configuration parameter.
 
The configuration parameter should be placed under the desired language section in the content configuration file:
 
[english]
Encodings=UTF8:englishUTF8
Stoplist=international.dat
IndexNumbers=1
HyphenChars=&
AugmentSeparators=-–—@“”‘’_.…
TangibleCharacters=#
ProperNames=0
 
After the change, the data for each Engine must be re-indexed (DREEXPORTIDX/DREINITIAL/DREADD)