Hi Andy,

I am sorry for the delay of this reply.

a) My filers show ALBUMS and PHOTOS - I don't want them to appear and have disabled the EasySocial Smart Search Plugins for each - but still they show....

After you've disabled the finder plugin for EasySocial albums and photos, you actually need to purge your Joomla smart search indexed content

b) Partial search on the basic search no longer works (I'm sure it used too after it came up in beta testing).... eg If you have Frederick Jones as a member, 'Frederick' will find him, but 'Fred' won't!!!!

I cant replicate this issue from my end. I've a user with full name 'Jenny Siew' and if I perform the search with 'Jenny' or 'Siew' or 'Jenny Siew', all the search return me correct result. Please see http://screencast.com/t/NGbfaLHhW

What you can do is see what has been indexed in your Joomla smart search. To check this, run below sql and see if the 'title' has the full name of your user or not.

select * from jos_finder_links where title like '%Frederick%';

Replace the jos_ to your own Joomla table prefix.

Maybe you capture and show me the results from the above sql.

Please advise.

Thanks Sam - Here's an update further to your advice....

1) Ah yes - after purging caches / re-running indexing - the album and photo filters have now gone away as required. So that's good.

2) My problem with the search seems to be when you type part of a name. So using your example, if I type "Jenny" I would get "Jenny Siew" back as expected BUT if I know her as Jen and type "Jen" then I get nothing back..... Can you replicate that with your environment? (I haven't gone so far as running that SQL yet as I thought I'd clarify the issue here first with this question and see if you can find "jen"?)...

Thanks!

Andy, your not the only one who has that issue. I tested this and also had the same issue. The beauty to an ajax search is that it "suggests" stuff for us as we type. ES has it very well dialed down for the country custom field. In addition to this, I noticed double results for a single name search that went to the same profile. One went to the user permalink, the other goes to their normal url route. You can see this live here. In that example you will see both url's exactly the same, but type "stacked" in the toolbar search and you will see them as different. I think this has to do with indexing.

Hi Andy,

Yes, I able to replicate the issue. If i search with the phase 'jen' or 'jenn', no result returned. I tested this with Joomla smart search too and getting the same. So i guess Joomla smart search doesn't support that

And for Josh, regarding your duplicate url being indexed, can you try to purge your Joomla smart search and see if the issue persist? If yes, can you create another post and send me your Joomla backend admin access and your FTP account?

Please advise.