Forum OpenACS Development: Re: How to make an object type searchable?

the place where "the magic happens" in the search package is this proc https://openacs.org/api-doc/proc-view?proc=search::indexer&source_p=1.

This gets scheduled to run every minute or so (configurable) and will loop through entries in the search_observer_queue table which are supposedly created by a trigger existing on cr_items table and called "content_item_search__utrg" (Object types that do not inherit from cr_items can define a similar trigger on their own).

For each such entry, the callback you have registered should be called and return some indexable text representation of your document that is then processed by the FTS engine.

To try to debug your situation, try adding searchable documents to your websites (e.g. file-storage pdfs, xowiki pages and so on) and check:
- that upon creation, an entry in search_observer_queue is created (note that it will be deleted as soon as search::indexer is run, unless something goes wrong)
- put some debug statements in search::indexer and in your callback, to check that your item made it to the processing and your indexing callback was executed

If this does not help, we should have a look to your service-contract definition.

Ciao
Antonio

I have no idea why neither how. I had ony reinstalled search pkg. That's all info I have.

Now, I'm going to debug custom objects... i'll paste the result here later on