Add custom search options

By default, users can only search for keywords in the Full Text, Title, and Filename indexes in IXIA CCMS Web. You can configure search.options.xml to make additional indexes searchable.

About this task

Indexes are defined Content Store in the Index Definition document. You can make any index defined in the Index Definition document searchable. You can also define new indexes in the Index Definition document if users need to search using different parameters.

Note: You can make only indexes searchable for users. You cannot make any other elements defined in the Index Definition document searchable, such as units, reference lists, or summaries.

To add custom search options:

Procedure

In the TEXTML Administration perspective, connect to your server.
Expand the Content Store's Repository node, and locate the search.options.xml file in the /system/webplatform/configuration/ collection.

Note: If the file does not exist, you can get a template for it from the CCMS_ContentStoreConfiguration directory of the MadCap Software Downloads site: https://cms.ixiasoft.com/downloads/CCMS_7.4/.
Check out the file and open it for editing.
As a child element of <indexes>, add an <index> element and give it a name attribute and value.

You can use any index defined in index-definition.xml.
The value for the name attribute should be the name of an index defined in index-definition.xml.
```
<indexes>
	<index name="audience">
	</index>
</indexes>
```

For the <index>, add a <captions> element and one <caption> element for each language users use in CCMS Web.


<index name="audience"> 
	<captions>
		<caption lang="en"/>
		<caption lang="de"/>
                <caption lang="ja"/>
	</captions>	
</index>

For each <caption> element, add a prompt attribute, where the value is the UI string that users see and select in CCMS Web for that language.


<index name="audience"> 
	<captions>
		<caption lang="en" prompt="Audience"/>
		<caption lang="de" prompt="Zielgruppen"/>
                <caption lang="ja" prompt="対象ユーザー"/>
	</captions>	
</index>

For each <index> element, add a scope attribute.
The scope can be either fuzzy or precise.
- fuzzy includes search results that contain the entered search terms. For example, note matches noted and notes, but does not match notice.
- precise includes only search results that exactly match the entered search terms.
```
<index name="audience" scope="precise"> 
	<captions>
		<caption lang="en" prompt="Audience"/>
		<caption lang="de" prompt="Zielgruppen"/>
                <caption lang="ja" prompt="対象ユーザー"/>
	</captions>	
</index>
```
Save, close, and check in the file.
Refresh CCMS Web.