Several users have contacted us about problems searching their manuals. We investigated and found that search indexes had grown to the point where our search engine was running out of memory.
We have now updated our server configuration to allow more memory for the search engine, which has resolved the problem.
If you still encounter problems searching, please let us know!
Small fix to the topic search engine within the Manula admin system:
When searching for a phrase using double quotes, the phrase search did not work correctly.
All good now, the admin search now returns the exact same results as the live manual search.
Thank you, Ernesto, for reporting this!
A quick fix for an old bug, reported by user Caroline:
The search box in the Video and Document Managers didn’t work, at all.
But now it does 🙂
Today, a big improvement to the search engine for live manuals. Suggested by users for many years, but now finally available:
The ability to search for exact phrases using quotes, e.g. “code block” or “manual settings”.
Some Manula users are making serious use of the powerful Variables system. And therefore have huge lists of variable in their Variables screen. Which can make find the variable you need quite annoying.
So today, we introduced a search box, on all 3 tabs of the Variable. Just type in the search box and it will instantly filter down the list, as you type.
Through the years, some of our users have created huge manuals, with thousands of topics. For those users, the Link to Topic screen was becoming a nightmare, that is, having to select a topic from a simple dropdown box with thousands of entries. No quick way to find a topic either.
So we fixed that problem!
Today we introduced a completely new Link Topic screen. It lets you select the topic to link to from a big list showing your manual’s Table of Content (ToC). Just click the topic you want, then click Insert at the bottom.
But that’s not all. At the same time we added a new Search box at the, that filters the ToC list “as-you-type”. This will make it super-quick to find your topic.
Enjoy, but more importantly: Stay Safe!
A small change to the search system today, to make search results more focused, less “fuzzy”:
If you enter multiple words in the search box, the results will now only show topics that contain ALL words. (Previously, it showed topics that contained ANY of the words.)
Enjoy!
This week we moved Manula’s search system over to the widely used “Elastic Search” technology.
The result is that searches are now much faster and that we can finally support Google-like exact match search using quotes.
For example, searching for “by barcode” between double quotes will only return topics where those two words appear together and in that order. Without quotes, the search will give all that topics that just contains those words, anywhere.
Enjoy!
Implemented today: a new look for the Search Results.
Resulting in a more Google-like presentation, with a large topic title, a green link showing the location of the topic in your manual’s structure and a small piece of text showing the first few lines from the topic.
