Basic search not working (advanced does)

[kenirwin]

We’ve just migrated an old site from Omeka 1.5.x to 3.0.3 and we’re finding that the basic search route returns no results, e.g.:
http://ulblwebp09.lib.miamioh.edu/picturebook/search?query=dentist&submit_search=Search&query_type=keyword#

but if we use the advanced search, we get the appropriate results:
http://ulblwebp09.lib.miamioh.edu/picturebook/items/browse?search=dentist&advanced[0][joiner]=and&advanced[0][element_id]=&advanced[0][type]=&advanced[0][terms]=&range=&collection=&type=&user=&tags=&public=&featured=&exhibit=&submit_search=Search+for+items

Any idea what we’d need to do to get the basic search to function as expected? (We’re using a non-official Omeka theme, but have confirmed the same problem exists in official themes as well.)

Thanks!

[jflatnes]

There’s an option in the Search tab under Settings to “reindex.” Have you tried that?

[kenirwin]

@jflatnes - thanks, that worked once I realized that I needed to specify which fields to index! Thanks for the quick response.

[kenirwin]

@jflatnes - perhaps I spoke to soon – the basic search works, but the boolean search seems to treat all searches as an OR:
“friend” gets 278 results
“dentist” gets 30
boolean “friend and dentist” gets 305
boolean “friend not dentist” gets 305

ex: https://ulblwebp09.lib.miamioh.edu/picturebook/search?query=friend+and+dentist&submit_search=Search&query_type=boolean&record_types[]=Item

Is there something we need to do in order to activate boolean search availability too?

Thanks

[jflatnes]

The boolean query mode uses MySQL’s boolean mode which uses + and - before terms rather than and / or.

[kenirwin]

Great - thanks. Is this be reflected in the documentation somewhere? I was looking at the Search Options section:
https://omeka.org/classic/docs/GettingStarted/Searching/#search-options
which mentions:
" * Boolean, in which you can add Boolean operators like AND and NOT"

Thanks for your help!

[jflatnes]

Good point. We need to adjust the documentation there.