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Searching inside all data resources

I have CKAN 2.8.1 running with the Datastore and DataPusher extensions. They are all working well, and no errors appear in the logs.

I am trying to test CKAN by searching for a term which appears inside several resources (in different data sets). For example "electrophoresis" exists in 5 data sets. I can search for the various data sets, and through the data viewer, they show up in datastore_search.

However, if I use the primary search bar on CKAN and try that same term, nothing shows up. My understanding is that CKAN should return results for this.

Solution

  • If you want to index resource content in addition to the resource metadata (which is automatically indexed by CKAN) then take a look at ckanext-extractor, which does exactly that.

    Disclaimer: I'm the author of ckanext-extractor.