Not tried in DNN context but using it in a project from a customer: https://swiftype.com/

 

Hi Jeff,

Although not with the same requirements, I recently finished a client project where we needed functionality offered by SearchBoost which is not present by default in the core search.

(Category-ordered results in this case, and I needed a custom HTML template)

I investigated the DNN Lucene index and the index itself is fine; for me it was more the presentation layer. So I used the API calls the core search module uses and created my own presentation layer. In combination with the way Open Content can add tags to the search indexer, I managed to create what I needed.

The search is now like:

Articles

• Result 1
• Result 2

News

• Result 1
• Result 2

Products

• Result 1

I'll write a blog post about this in the coming weeks.

In the end, my conclusion was that you can use the core index with your own code.

One can already pass PDF texts into the core index, but it would be a manual step. I think a PDF indexing task would be a great addition. There are several ways of developing that (addition to the core, separate module, etc.). We have been discussing this (within 40FINGERS)—it might be something we develop ourselves, or maybe some companies can sponsor a change to DNN itself?

But I'll get back to that and/or options in the blog post. Feel free to ping me if you have questions or want to discuss this.

Just wanted to clarify that Search Boost is compatible with DNN 10. The stand-alone version is no longer available, but the version available in Plant an App is DNN 10 ready fully backwards compatible. And, with the Starter Plan, it's reasonable priced.

Can you give an indication of the price of the starter plan?

Hi Timo,

Sure. The Starter Plan pricing is at https://www.plantanapp.co...tarter-plan-for-dnn.
It's $69.95 /mo or $695 /yr (basically 2 months free for annual payments) per production domain.
It includes the foundation of most of the DNN Sharp modules.

Additional packages and add-ons can be added on top via the marketplace https://marketplace.plantanapp.com (still a bit of WIP, but already used by many).
The Search add-on for example is $69.95/mo or $695 /yr.

In addition, Developer Seats are needed for individuals configuring the modules. The Professional Dev Seat tier for example gives access to the configuring the modules, unlimited non-production environments, support, and developer centric features. The seat is priced a $240 /mo or $2,400 /yr.

So, for example, if you are 1 developer managing 10 customers on the Starter Plan you'd need 1 dev seat + 10 runtime licenses. The total cost would be ~$93.5 /mo per customer or $935 /yr.

There's a tremendous amount of power that comes with Plant an App. Hope you see it as great value for the money as well.