Silverstripe Search has a range of powerful features that use advanced Elastic technologies under the hood to help your users find what they’re looking for.

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Looking for the Developer’s guide? If you're thinking "show me the code already" you might want to head over to the Developer's guide

Plans, Tiers and Add-ons#

Your Silverstripe Search Subscription is the combination of your selected Plan and any Add-ons such as additional engines. Together this determines what features are available to you. An overview of what is available on each tier is below.

Feature Basic Analyst Architect
Customisable index fields
Software development kit (SDK)
Te Reo macron recognition
Customisable search fields
Customisable result fields
Search term highlighting
Spelling suggestions (aka "Did you mean?")
Precision tuning
Search field weighting
Synonyms
Query suggestions (aka Autocomplete)
PDF/Docx indexing (15MB file size limit)
Single tenancy
Federated search
API Logs30 days30 days30 days

You can change what plan you are on or what add-ons you have by contacting us.

Overview#

This guide is arranged as you might set up your search. To start, you need to get some content into your search engine. Then it outlines the ways you can search your content. Once you are up and running then you can refine your results.

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This guide dives right into Silverstripe Search features. If you’d like to start from the beginning head over to Getting started

Searching your content#

Search relevance settings#

Other#

Further support#

Check the FAQ - Frequently asked questions.