This extension replace the standard global search with a faster and more accurate search.

• Users can improve results accuracy by specifying required, optional and denied words.
• Administrator can fine-tune the results relevance, by changing configuration parameters.
• It uses MySQL fulltext feature to perform the global search.

• This extension relies on MySQL full-text feature.
• It uses the main database configured for iTop.

• MySQL 5.6 or above
• Mariadb 10.0.5 or above
• iTop 2.5.0 or above

Use the Standard installation process for this extension.

array(
  'Organization' => 2.0,
  'Person' => 1.5,
  'Location' => 1.2,
  'SLT' => 0.8,
)

configuration example

'combodo-fulltext-search' => array(
    'object_weight_factor' => array(
        'Organization' => 2.0,
        'Person' => 1.5,
        'Location' => 1.2,
        'SLT' => 0.8,
    ),
    'excluded_classes' => array(
       'Attachment',
    ),
),

Searching for one word When searching for a single word (example: demo) the following searches are done:

1. The word: demo
2. The words starting with the search: demo*

Searching for multiple words

When searching for multiple words, (example: user-level lock) the following searches are done:

1. The exact sentence entered: “user_level lock”
2. All the words are present: +user_level +lock
3. At least one word is present: user_level lock

As - is a keyword to exclude a word, it is replaced by _ which is another keyword to represent any single character.

Computing weight

Each search is bringing points calculated by MySQL fulltext search, which are then weighted with the configuration parameters set.

To ensure that the search will be efficient within your iTop, there are additional actions for Administrator users:

• Global search management action which allow to rebuild the indexes after a change of configuration parameter: object_weight_factor.
• Debug action which display details on how the result ordering is generated, based on weight.

• user_level lock has a MySQL provided weight
• “user_level lock” has the above weight * sentence_weight_factor
• Total Score is the sum of the various scores * object_weight_factor

Just type the words in the global search field, then enter or click on the magnifier icon to get the result :

By default the search searchs on all Classes with category searchable, including abstract classes, such as Ticket, Contact or FunctionalCI.

Restrict previous search to a single class	Expend back to all classes

FunctionalCI:combodo

The class name can be the internal name (like FunctionalCI) of the display name in the current language used (like CI fonctionnel).

A menu allow to display some of the fields which have matched the requested pattern

On each returned object, you can request related objects: