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sine1son
sine1son

Reputation: 1

Wagtail Search in CMS

I'm trying to search through all of my pages on the backend to find instances of urls with outdated domain names. But when I search, it only seems to get hits based on the title of the pages, and not their content. Is there something I need to configure to make this work?

Thank you!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 846

Answers (1)

gasman
gasman

Reputation: 25227

To search on fields beyond the ones that are common to all page types (such as title), you'll need to define a search_fields property on your page model, such as:

from wagtail.search import index

class MyPage(Page):
    body = StreamField(...)

    search_fields = Page.search_fields + [
        index.SearchField('body')
    ]

After setting this up, you'll need to update the search index to contain this new data, by running ./manage.py update_index.

If you're running 2.14.x or earlier, you'll also need to set up an alternative search backend such as Postgres or Elasticsearch - the default wagtail.search.backends.db search backend was very limited and only supported searching on the 'core' fields such as title. As of 2.15, a new wagtail.search.backends.database backend is available and enabled on new projects out of the box, and this has full support for searching across all fields.

Upvotes: 3

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