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Claire · 2024-01-09 16:55:38

Hello everyone!

It's almost a month since Piwigo 14 was officially released, and you've probably noticed one of the big new features of this version: the new search engine (read the description of Piwigo 14 if you missed it).

Now we'd love to hear what you think of this major new feature, which we've been working hard on!

So far, a few users have let us know that they don't like the new 'Search in this set' button that has appeared on an album or tag page. Don't worry, you can disable the display of this button in Piwigo's administration (Configuration>Options).

But apart from that, we haven't had much feedback, despite our frequent calls, since the release of beta 1 in June 2023.

That's why I'm opening this topic to get your feedback: what do you think of the new multi-criteria search in Piwigo?
What do you like about it?
What do you like less?
How could it be improved?

We're listening!

capwiz · 2024-04-02 05:40:48

I believe the old engine was significantly better at searching tags. Please see this post I made chronicling my complaint with the new engine.

[Forum, topic 33481] More easily search tags

drmaemo · 2024-04-03 12:56:13

I think the near search feature is friendlier to use than the previous one.

Two changes to consider:

1. Allow the administrator to select which filter criteria should always be available. For example, I would like the option to have the Post Date filter appear without the user having to activate it. Perhaps this can be configured somewhere in the Administration panel?

2. For the Post Date filter, it would be appreciated if the user could specify more precisely the time period that the filter applies. Currently, there are four (4) choices, which is more limiting.

Apologies if these suggestion are repeats of previous posts.

All the best,

DrM

dummer-esel · 2024-04-03 22:07:37

Hi,

Thanks for updating the search function.

The only feature I'm still missing is to search for albums (categories) only.
For now, it's perfect if you have a photo stock and want to seach for a list of single pictures.

However, I organized my gallery into a lot of albums, and sometimes I can't even find the right album.

Maybe you could make a feature that in the results only albums appear, not single photos? This would be really awesome!

BMS · 2025-08-09 17:17:41

Hi,

to me the search function is great!
And fast with 60,000+ images!

A few small notes:
1. Customisation of the search form with the template-extension method no longer works. The template ../piwigo/themes/default/template/search.tpl is still included in the Piwigo 15.6.0 package, but is not used at all. I deleted the file and Search still works as it should.

2. The template of the new Search is ../piwigo/themes/default/template/include/search-filters.inc.tpl. This can be customised by editing a copy placed in ../piwigo/template-extension/ but there is no option to have this template replace the original in 'Administration > Configuration > Templates'. So customisation basically requires a hack.
However to customise the default values of for example the search-for-words form is near to impossible as these values are set by ../piwigo/themes/default/js/mcs.js
(e.g. I am not using tags so I would like to have this option by default unchecked).

3. The 'search for words' form has a glitch in the layout. Using the Elegant theme, the checkmark for tags is displayed in the center of a new line and the 'tags' label left aligned on the following line. Using the browser inspector I found the culprit to be a css setting width:500px inherited from ../piwigo/themes/default/theme.css:

Code:

590 .filter input[name="search_allwords"], .filter #authors, .filter #tags {
591   width:500px;
592 }

The lines 558-649 in themes.css appear to me as being left behind from the old search function. I deleted these lines from ../piwigo/themes/default/theme.css and the layout is ok now.
Note: It could be a problem of the Elegant Theme only. I checked above in the Modus Theme and there the css is not inherited!

Greetings,
Ben

Kmar · 2025-09-02 20:42:04

Hi,
I'll second everything BMS wrote above, including the layout glitch on the tags label. I'm using GreyDragon theme so it's not just the Elegant theme.

Customization of the new search is not convenient. I had to copy themes/default/template/index.tpl and themes/default/template/include/search_filters.tpl into my template-extension folder, edit the index.tpl to point to the moved search_filters.tpl, then edit search_filters.tpl to remove the search types that make no sense for my application, then switch the index.tpl in template extensions. It would be very nice if:

A) Individual search types could be enabled/disabled in the admin menu.
B) Modifications to the search page could be made as before, by pointing the template extension at the relevant search tpl directly.

For some reason I had trouble getting the appearance of the new search page to match the rest of my site until I set the local configuration option $conf['template_combine_files'] = false. The GreyDragon theme's header pulls in local/greydragon/custom.css and it appears that my changes to that file are not reflected on the search page unless I set that option to false. Could there be a problem in the order in which the files are combined, such that CSS set by the theme does not override the CSS on the new search page?

Last edited by Kmar (2025-09-04 05:21:00)

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