JXtended Finder 2.0 RC1 Released
Finder is a powerful search engine that gives you access to technology used by major search engines like Google™ and Yahoo!™. Finder 2.0 features a completely redesigned core engine for better search results, AJAX powered search suggestions based on the actual content of your site, an expanding selection of search plugins, and much more.
About the RC1 Release
The RC1 release includes the following fixes and improvements:
- Added search plugin for JomSocial Profiles.
- Added extra field support for K2 Items.
- Added search plugin for K2 Categories.
- Added synchronization plugin for K2.
- Added configuration option to Finder search module to disable search suggestions.
- Added configuration option to Finder search module to link to advanced search page.
- Added configuration option to disable "search..." text in Finder search module input field.
- Fixed sync state corruption problems when updating multiple content items.
- Fixed Joomla Sections and Categories synchronization.
- Fixed Joomla Articles start and end publish dates.
- Fixed Indexer modal window size.
- Fixed unnecessary database queries while indexing.
- Fixed CSS conflict with some templates in advanced search options.
- Fixed search result pagination when using only taxonomy and no keywords.
Package Contents
The Finder package includes the core search system, a search module, an administrator “status” module, and search plugins for Joomla Articles, Categories, Contacts, Sections, and Web links; JXtended Comments; and JXtended Labels. To see the full list of search plugins available for Finder in addition to what comes in the main package, check out the Finder RC1 downloads page.
We know that you’re excited to get started but it is extremely important that you read the release information, installation notes, and requirements before you try to install Finder 2.0 RC1. You’ll thank us later.
Installation Notes
Unlike most JXtended extensions, Finder 2.0 cannot be installed over an older version. You must uninstall any old versions of Finder on your site before installing the new package. Read more about how to install Finder.
Requirements
Finder 2.0 is the first JXtended extension to use the new JXtended Libraries 2.0. The Libraries will come bundled with the Finder package so there is no need to download any extra packages unless you need support for non-standard extensions.
Finder 2.0 also requires:
- PHP 5.2 or higher.
- MySQL 4.1 or higher.
- Expanded indexing support for files will require safe mode to be off and the popen() function to be callable for PHP.
- Non-Latin based languages require UTF-8 properties support for PCRE.
We also have a small PHP script to check your Web server for compatibility with Finder 2.0. Just download the package, extract the PHP file and upload it to your Joomla 1.5 site. It needs to be placed in the same directory as your configuration.php file and then called via your favorite Web browser by navigating to the URL of your Joomla site followed by “requirements.php”. For example, “http://jxtended.com/requirements.php”.
Hi Rob,
Nice to see the RC1 version and added K2 extensions.
Can the Finder 2 RC1 be installed over Finder 2 Beta 3?
Best regards
Mark
Mark,
Yes, you can install Finder 2.0.0 RC1 over Finder 2.0.0 Beta 1, 2, or 3 but not Finder 1.1.x.
Hi Rob, so happy to see the update. Thank you!
Still doesn't work. We expected the beta problems will be fixed.
This time there's no error message explanation, just freezing with this when starting to index the content:
An Error Has Occurred
The following message was returned by the server:
(that's it...no error explanation and not 1 indexed content)
1.1 version works great...but we'd really could use the new features...
Would be awesome to see Agora forum indexing in the future
@Ehrmann-ne,
Please open a support ticket for that issue. It is common for third-party plugins to break the indexer because they were not built correctly.
I will possibly start a project where I will need to be able to search across 2-6 websites. Any chance of getting this done?
@Svein,
JXtended Finder does not support multi-site search.
Will Finder 2.0 have the ability to index numbers like Finder 1.1.0 did?
Can't wait for Zoo2 integration!
@Tina,
Yes, Finder 2.0 indexes numbers.
Hi.. Nice work..
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Wondering, if i can use Finder with K2 to build real estate or Autos websites that required Search criteria options. if option from drop-down one selected, options in drop-down two updated accordingly.
For K2 categories/subcategories/extra-fields..
Thanks
Is support for clickcartpro7 store searches on the cards?
Does Finder index PDF or DOC contents?
Couple of questions.
1-Does Finder support search byb date ranges?
2-Will you develop a plugin for FlexiContent in the future? K2 is so 2008