Global simple search does not work (3.9 and 3.7)

Re: Global simple search does not work (3.9 and 3.7)

by Ken Task -
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Moodle 37 in admin/tool/task/cli/
there are two related for search ...

\core\task\search_index_task  */30 * * * * *
\core\task\search_optimize_task 15 */12 * * * *

Running via command line in admin/tool/task/cli/

php schedule_task.php --execute="\core\task\search_index_task"

php schedule_task.php --execute="\core\task\search_optimize_task"


First one when working ...... looks like:

Execute scheduled task: Global search indexing (core\task\search_index_task)
Processing area: HTML block content
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Forum - posts
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Wiki - collaborative pages
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Wiki - activity information
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: URL
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Survey - activity information
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: SCORM package - activity information
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: File
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Quiz - activity information
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Page
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: External tool - activity information
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Lesson - activity information
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Label
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: IMS content package - resource information
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Glossary - entries
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Glossary - activity information
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Forum - activity information
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Courses
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Folder
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Feedback - activity information
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Database - entries
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Database - activity information
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Choice - activity information
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Chat - activity information
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Book - chapters
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Book - resource information
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Assignment - activity information
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Users
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Messages - sent
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Messages - received
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Course sections
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Course custom fields
  No new documents to index.
Processing area: Workshop - activity information
  No new documents to index.
... used 432 dbqueries
... used 0.40577483177185 seconds
Scheduled task complete: Global search indexing (core\task\search_index_task)

In GUI:
advanced features ... Enable Global Search ... default is no ... have to enable.

In  Site administration -> Plugins -> Search -> Manage global search
Search Setup

Do the steps in order

Step     Status
1. Select search engine     Simple search
2. Enable search areas     Yes
3. Setup search engine     Yes
4. Index data     Yes
5. Enable global search     Yes

Also Searchable courses has options for what to search

3.9 is pretty much ditto!

'SoS', Ken

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