Autocomplete |
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When this feature is enabled, as users type in the search box, a list of suggestions will appear immediately to complete their search query based on your list of words, or popular searches determined from your Search Statistics Log. This feature is also known as "auto-suggest". It is most effective if you check the option to "Include top x most popular search terms from Statistics log file" and provide it with a file path or URL to the statistics log file (created in "Configure"->"Advanced"). This will then automatically update (on each indexing) with popular search terms (which yield results) submitted by the visitors on your website. Once this is enabled, the next indexing run will create an additional .zdat file ("zoom_autocomplete.zdat") and include a "zoom_autocomplete.js" file and "zoom_autocomplete.css" file. The latter two files can also be retrieved from the "Extras" folder manually (via "Tools" menu -> "Open extras folder"). These files must all be uploaded to your server along with your other index files (Zoom will do this automatically if you use the built-in FTP feature). The feature will work best if A) you have a server that is fairly fast and B) there is reasonable low latency between the client and the server. If you have a slow machine with high latency means that auto-complete might not keep up with the user's typing speed. |