Lately I've been asked on several occasions if it is possible to have a
full text search (which includes forums, wikis, documents etc.) in
Moodle. So I searched the Moodle website. Unfortunately, the search didn't produce any useful results.
Naturally, users should only find hits they are allowed to access.
Otherwise, we could simply open the required courses to Google and use
its search functions. Last but not least, it should be reasonably easy
to integrate in Moodle.
Are there any experiences how to tackle such an endeavour or ready to use solutions out there? My school uses the commercial Eurospider for the Internet/Intranet. I hope it is ok I write in here but I didn't find a feature request form.
[Feature Request] Full Text Search: Forums, Wikis, Documents etc.
by Martin Vögeli -
Number of replies: 3
In reply to Martin Vögeli
Re: [Feature Request] Full Text Search: Forums, Wikis, Documents etc.
by Martin Vögeli -
Are there any ideas? 
In reply to Martin Vögeli
Re: [Feature Request] Full Text Search: Forums, Wikis, Documents etc.
by Dan Stowell -
people ask for this feature about once every seven or eight weeks on the Moodle forums 
check the archives (I remember a discussion titled "Search everything?") and you'll find some interesting discussion about how to achieve it. it's a very difficult process because an index needs to be built (because otherwise the search would be ridiculously slow), and then at "search-time" the indexed items need to be checked to determine whether the given user is allowed to access the items to which the index refers.
this access-authorisation problem is the reason that a "pre-packaged" search tool like eurospider would be completely irrelevant.
check the archives (I remember a discussion titled "Search everything?") and you'll find some interesting discussion about how to achieve it. it's a very difficult process because an index needs to be built (because otherwise the search would be ridiculously slow), and then at "search-time" the indexed items need to be checked to determine whether the given user is allowed to access the items to which the index refers.
this access-authorisation problem is the reason that a "pre-packaged" search tool like eurospider would be completely irrelevant.
In reply to Dan Stowell
Re: [Feature Request] Full Text Search: Forums, Wikis, Documents etc.
by Martin Vögeli -
Thanks Dan for your answer! I found the thread you mentioned. If I find a solution I'll post it here 