Change search engine #1704

Closed
opened 2026-02-05 01:39:56 +03:00 by OVERLORD · 1 comment
Owner

Originally created by @EloFran on GitHub (May 3, 2020).

Describe the feature you'd like
Hello again, I would like to know if there is a way that the predictive search engine that appears when you want to add a link when you are editing, was the one that comes as the main one. Or failing that the exact search engine.

Describe the benefits this feature would bring to BookStack users
In my case, the articles of my books are numbered and an approximate search is not useful.

Additional context
An example,
if I search for: "article 5", neither 15 nor 55 will be useful to me. I know that if I put it in quotation marks, the search is exact, but from the mobile it is quite uncomfortable to be adding quotation marks.
Thx !

Originally created by @EloFran on GitHub (May 3, 2020). **Describe the feature you'd like** Hello again, I would like to know if there is a way that the predictive search engine that appears when you want to add a link when you are editing, was the one that comes as the main one. Or failing that the exact search engine. **Describe the benefits this feature would bring to BookStack users** In my case, the articles of my books are numbered and an approximate search is not useful. **Additional context** An example, if I search for: "article 5", neither 15 nor 55 will be useful to me. I know that if I put it in quotation marks, the search is exact, but from the mobile it is quite uncomfortable to be adding quotation marks. Thx !
Author
Owner

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2021):

Hi @EloFran,
Unfortunately there is no way to alter the search engine by default.

It might be possible to hack something via custom JS in the head, or via custom logic in the logical theme system or inventive use of the visual theme system.

Within #3043 (To be part of the next feature release) I did make some changes to auto-convert potentially troublesome terms to exact terms, but I'm not sure that would help in your exact example scenario.

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Nov 13, 2021): Hi @EloFran, Unfortunately there is no way to alter the search engine by default. It might be possible to hack something via custom JS in the head, or via custom logic in the [logical theme system](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/blob/master/dev/docs/logical-theme-system.md) or inventive use of the [visual theme system](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/blob/master/dev/docs/visual-theme-system.md). Within #3043 (To be part of the next feature release) I did make some changes to auto-convert potentially troublesome terms to exact terms, but I'm not sure that would help in your exact example scenario.
Sign in to join this conversation.
1 Participants
Notifications
Due Date
No due date set.
Dependencies

No dependencies set.

Reference: starred/BookStack#1704