How to configure standard joomla searching (via com_search)

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    George Papadakis
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    28 October 2013
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    1.5.6
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You will need to perform the following actions:

  1. If you have Joom!Fish installed but you use it for everything else except items (articles), meaning you have created the multi-language content of your site by creating items per language inside the FLEXIcontent items manager then:
    -- disable the plugins:
    Search - Content  (standard Joomla article search plugin)
    Search - Jfcontent (Joom!Fish article search translate plugin)
    -- and enable the FLEXIcontent standard search plugin, and inside it activate language filter
  2. If you have a single language inside the FLEXIcontent items manager and you use joomfish to translate article (items) then do the opposite of the above.

NOTE 1: Searching works only for title and description, but v1.5.6, there is a new search view, that allows searching more fields, and displaying more fields that just title and description. NOTE 2: to display custom FLEXIcontent fields in the joomla search component (com_search) results please read this forum thread