The searchit Release log

For users specifically looking for images, searchit FAT client now offers a responsive image gallery function. This enables an attractive and compact display of images in search results. The image gallery can be displayed using a separate menu item in the blue bar with the special searches. With this selection, the files saved in the native image format are displayed in the overview and can be filtered according to the different image formats.

searchit now offers an improved result display by integrating graphical thumbnails in the results list in the FAT client and web client. This feature allows users to get visual previews of search results at a glance, making it easier to identify relevant content. Instead of generic icons, thumbnails of the images or the automatically generated title pages of the files are now displayed in the list and tile view. On the desktop, these preview images are enlarged when you mouse over, which makes it even easier to identify the correct files.

Another option, which is currently only available in the FAT client (not in the mobile version), is to display the images via the view menu. All files are displayed graphically. If it is not an image or a file with an automatically generated PDF preview, this view only shows a generic icon for the file.

The new searchit Release also includes support for canonical links to detect duplicate content. This not only improves the quality of indexing, but also prevents redundant search results.

The search functionality of searchit has been enhanced with auto-completion. As you type, various search term suggestions are offered, ranked according to relevance and similar spelling. This not only saves time, especially with longer search terms, but also avoids possible typos, which ultimately leads to more relevant search results.

searchit has improved its usability in the current release by increasing support for mobile devices with different resolutions. The responsive design ensures that the software is displayed optimally on every device.

A new filter enables searchit Users to specifically search for file extensions such as .exe, .pdf, .doc, etc. All file extensions are available, including exotic ones that are not standard file extensions. Using this filter is particularly recommended for this type of file.

When it comes to accessibility, searchit receive further improvements with the current release. That's how it will be now ReadSpeaker which supports text-to-speech tools to optimize the accessible user experience.

In the search archive pluginit Numerous new features have been added for downloading YouTube information.

The search systemit has been optimized to efficiently clean up old documents and thus free up storage space. For example, preview images that are no longer needed are automatically deleted once a week if no active data records are found.

• Indexing – O365 Connector
  With the new O365 Connector, searchit now indexing Exchange and SharePoint via Microsoft Office 365.
• Indexing – Quantum Tape Library
  searchit can now check cartridges from the Quantum Tape Library. This extends the search functionality of the Archive plugin.
• Multi-instance support for the click function (FAT client)
  For customers with multiple searchitInstances now offer the software the option of clicking on all instances using a central click service.
• “Did you mean…” functionality in the search function (FAT client, web client)
  If searches have been carried out but have not produced any results, searchit now offers a “Did you mean…” functionality that suggests similar search terms from the index.

The duplicate search makes it possible to search all connected search sources for duplicate documents or files. This makes it clear at a glance how often a file has been duplicated in various sources.

The resulting additional storage effort can be deleted directly through searchit can easily be minimized.

A new feature from searchit, which aims towards better knowledge management, is the ability to annotate search results. The comments can be viewed in real time by all authorized users and can be searched and found with appropriate search queries.

searchit gets even more functions with release version 2.6 to ensure seamless accessibility. In this release, both the web interface and the website search have been adapted for additional screen readers.

With the website integration there is now the possibility of using the Enterprise Search Engine searchIT to use as a search on multisite websites. The search can be integrated individually on a special search page, but also on existing pages in the form of a small search field. Depending on the configuration, the from searchIT well-known filter options are available. Predefined area filters can be used to determine which data should be taken into account when searching on the respective website.

We enable certain documents to be released to users without their own user account searchIT Version 2.5 anonymous login. For example, municipalities can make documents such as applications or other data available to their citizens in the form of a citizen service.

Using artificial intelligence it creates it searchIT to extract the topics of the data to be searched. In addition to the previously available filter options, search results can now be filtered according to their content. In order to optimally display the topics, a new view has been integrated. Keywords relevant to the content are displayed in the tag cloud, and the frequency of the topic is visualized through the color and font size of the word.

The document preview has been improved so that, in addition to a simple text preview, the first pages of a document are now displayed in the original layout in the form of an automatically generated PDF. In the new preview you can now switch between text, PDF and metadata previews.

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In order to be able to mark documents privately or publicly for all employees, we have introduced “tag handling”. By assigning tags, which can also contain a hierarchy, we make it possible to give certain documents several parameters in order to later search and filter for them.

Via the symbol A tag can be added to a file.

If a document has already been tagged, that tag will be below the file name and path in the selected color.

By clicking on the tag icon  All existing private and public tags can be managed in the module bar. All metadata of the tag is also visible here.

The graphical search filters can be used to filter specifically according to the assigned tags. You can filter deeper in the tag hierarchy by double-clicking.

Revised time dimension filters make it possible to limit results to a specific time period even more quickly.

Using the quick selection, a period that ends with the current day can be selected with just one click.

With relative selection, a search period can be selected based on the current day. For example, the period from 20 days ago to 5 days ago can be searched.

With the absolute selection, the date for the start and end of the search can be set.

The selection options can be used to determine which time should be taken into account in the time dimension.

The search algorithm is constantly being improved.

In order to be able to search very long documents, such as books, with many individual pages more precisely, we have introduced the “Document Section Search”. This puts an end to endless scrolling, even if the instance you are looking for is, for example, in the last chapter of a book. Long documents are divided into individual blocks (document areas, e.g. 10 pages each). 

The document area is marked with the icon marked. Documents that have been divided into document areas are called “main documents” and are identified by the icon characterized.

By clicking on the main documents icon, a “look-up search” is started and all document areas of this main document are displayed.

The option filters can be used to filter document areas or main documents.

To carry out a search in specific fields (e.g. in the file name), a list of field names can be loaded into the search field using the TAB key. Then simply select any field with the cursor keys or the mouse pointer. Here are a few examples: There are parent fields that are in the “all.*” namespace, such as all.filename or all.author. There are also type-dependent fields, such as: email.cc, contact.company or document descriptiong
See also documentation: Interactive search line

The search algorithm is constantly being improved. Multiselect, umlauts, etc. are among the optimizations of version 2.3.