Forward Search for Umbraco
Forward Search for Umbraco is an integration with Umbraco - the Open Source .Net CMS solution - delivering powerful search abilities to Umbraco based solutions.
With more than 85.000 installations, Umbraco is one of the most deployed Web Content Management Systems based on the Microsoft .Net technology and are an alternative to EPiServer, Sitecore and other CMS solutions.
Forward Search is a product based solution, giving fast or even complex and flexible implementation for Enterprise needs.
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Highlighted Search Features
- Faceted Search and Navigation
- Contextual Search – Combined search in both unstructured and structured content
- Custom Thesaurus – Synonym handling
- “Did you mean?” – Suggest alternative search word
- Automated synonym handling based on “Did you mean?” feature
- Type Ahead – Suggest search word from index word list
- User search behaviour tracking and reporting included
- Optional Multilingual Thesaurus – Synonym dictionaries covering 25 languages
- Optional Geo Search – Suggest relevant result near a location or sort on distance
Forward Search for Sitecore is closely integrated with Umbraco including secure search across multiple sources of various types of content based on Umbraco’s security model, ensuring rights of content on user or group level. Sources could also include non Umbraco websites and solutions.
The Forward Search Administration for Umbraco is a Stand-alone client allowing editors, administrators and developers to setup, configure and tune the Forward Search or to access relevant information such as Search statistics, logs etc.
The module is crawler based and includes Umbraco integration for Event based indexing (publishing event) and for retrieving the Umbraco security model. Queries and results are rendered with Forward Search XSLT helper extension which comes with samples or by applying .Net custom controls, making it easy and fast to customize.
Forward Search for Umbraco supports Umbraco versions 3 and 4.
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