11-17-2011 05:30 PM
Search Results in RequestCenter
Is there a way to 'weight' your results for searching in the Service Catalog? We have services that might have 'laptop' in the description but we don't want them to show when a user searches for 'laptop'. With Google or Amazon or any of those, you get only those relevant items displayed first using weightings.
Anybody figured this out?
11-17-2011 05:30 PM
We've fought this too - as we have a number of non-orderable information services that we want to display at the bottom! We're not too keen on prefixing everything with white space (old habits die hard I think!) so we found an ASCII character that would move the Information services to the bottom - it is:
Φ
However! It does not migrate in CatalogDeployer, so if you intend to migrate them frequently it's not a practical process. It would be great if you could categorise them even simply!
11-17-2011 05:30 PM
We've had the same experience. The search results are displayed in alphabetical order instead of showing items that the best matches for the search first. I'm not sure if there is a way to make the search engine do that but it would help to have some search intetlligence.
11-17-2011 05:30 PM
We've added leading spaces to the items we want to show up first in the list. Other than encouraging users to click the "Title and Keywords Only" box I think that's the only effect you can have on search results.
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