Configuration Manager - Search Settings
The "Search settings" menu is used to define settings for administrative search and platform-wide search.
Administrative Search
The "Administrative search" tab is used to define settings for searches such as result number options, default number of search results, max records, timeouts, exports, and auto completes.
The "Security" menu contains a variety of settings available to harden further security at an application level.
Setting | What does the setting do? |
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Results per page | Definition of the possible selection options for the number of search results shown per page. The corresponding selection box can be found in every search bar. |
Results per page default | Preset value in the selection box of a search bar where the user can change the number of results shown per page. Note: This value must be contained in the list searchResultsPerPage. |
Max record count | Number of search results above which a warning message is displayed to the user in person management, informing him about the number of hits and offering him the possibility to cancel and reformulate the search. This also affects lists in the frontend, like attendance tracking, my content. These are basically searches and are influenced by this limitation. |
Timeout seconds | Number of seconds representing the waiting time of the search framework to get a response from the server. |
Enable export by email | Enables the feature "Send Export search file by email". |
Auto complete limit for input fields | Maximum number of auto complete entries for the input search filters in the ILS implementation. |
Auto complete limit for popup fields | Maximum number of auto complete entries for popup search filters in the ILS implementation. |
Auto complete limit for REST requests | Maximum number of auto complete entries for the search filters in the REST service. |
Platform-wide Search
The "Platform-wide search" tab is used to define the type of active search.
Setting | What does the setting do? |
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Active search type | Definition whether Lexical or Semantic search is used for the search queries. Lexical search matches the exact words and phrases of the user query with text in the content (no AI is needed). Semantic search uses machine learning models (e.g. vector embeddings) to understand the meaning behind the query and find conceptually similar results (AI is needed). Please note that the semantic search only becomes effective after full indexing. Please go to the data connector configuration and trigger a full re-indexing for each of your plugins and then execute the job. |