[Mike]

Hello,

How can I configure how the search results are displayed in CMap? for example when I preform a search it will list the results in a strange order. I would like them listed by relevance of the keyword but listed alphabetically by first name. Is there any way to do this?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mike

The DB determines relevance, not Connections, so Connections displays the order based on relevance that the database determines. Connections can only do the relevance sorting if the database itself supports it.

Some things you can help narrow the search results, navigate to the Connections Settings admin page and click the Search tab. Enable search for only the minimum fields you need to be searched. The more fields, the more possible returned results which may or may not make sense in your context.

You can also try disabling the “Keyword Search” search option leaving only the “FULLTEXT” option enabled. The FULLTEXT search is, if your database supports it, is what will return relevance based results. If you disable the keyword search option and you get no results when performing searches, then your database does not support it and you will have to rely on the keyword search.

Hope this helps!

[Mike]

I have disabled the keyword search and only have fulltext enabled. I do get search results with this configuration however still it does not sort. As for the database all I have done was a csv import so not sure where the DB would actually live.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mike

The search results with keyword disabled are sorted by relevance by the database. Connections displays the results as sorted, by relevance, by the database.

The database is the thing your WordPress installation runs from (not a CSV file that was imported). It is the same database where all your WordPress post and pages are also saved this database lives on your web hosts server.

Hope this helps!

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