Minitek Live Search

Introduction

Search & Indexing, Site Search, Search Results

An advanced search engine for Joomla.

Based on the Joomla core component Smart Search, Minitek Live Search allows you to incorporate more advanced search features into your website.

Smart Search Plugins
Smart Search plugins enable the scanning and indexing of content from Joomla core or 3rd party components.

Content Indexer
Scans the content of your website and builds an index that enables fast and intelligent searching.

Content Maps
Indexed items are mapped to content maps that can be used to filter search results.

Smart Filters
Allow users to limit the scope of the content that will be searched within specific content maps.

Filter Groups
Assemble filters into groups to allow the creation of multiple search instances that search in different content.

Display Module Anywhere
Display the module in a template position or use the loadposition plugin to publish it anywhere in your website.

Ajax Interface
User-friendly and interactive interface where search results are displayed in real-time while typing a word.

Date Filtering
Allow users to limit the search by a specific date or within a specific date range.

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Woah, this is THE BEST J4 AJAX Live Search

Net-Config (6).
Posted on 12 May 2023

Functionality

It should be the 5.0 version, with all these features. Ajax Search, Image Display, Using Multiple Modules on one page. Tops in features.

Ease of use

No, not super simple, but it is powerful. Builds on Smart Search and then blows the roof off it. Does EVERYTHING and more for a search ext.

Support

Terrific. I use other Minitek extensions and support is TOPS. I use other extensions but have faith when I put my $ in the Pro Plan for sure

Documentation

Really good. Tough to cover ALL config options in detail. You should try them out and ask if any confusion. Way better than others overall.

Value for money

Easy. Take the Professional Plan and use ALL extensions on unlimited sites. I use Minitek Wall, FAQ Book, Live Search, and System Messages.

I used this to: Sites where I like have a TITLES only search with images but no text + content search with text but no images and highlighting words on result pages. BOTH Ajax Search modules active on the same page. No JavaScript or other problems. This is simply the most flexible Search option

Powerful

David (6).
Posted on 09 September 2019

Functionality

If you need a smart search, this will do it. I would especially recommend it to use together with other Minitek components.

Ease of use

The components/modules and comp/mod instances seem a bit complicated at first, but once you start configuring it speaks for itself.

Support

Support is fast and satisfactory, my questions were quickly answered and resolved.

Documentation

The documentation covers most questions one may have, just had to contact support to ask where some settings I needed were at.

Value for money

It does what it promises, especially valuable when using in combination with other Minitek components.

I used this to: I used this in particular to add a search engine for my FAQ, using the Minitek FAQBook Pro. The two components work well together.

Excellent Product & Support

warren cowan (12).
Posted on 01 June 2018

Functionality

100% ideal for product search of virtuemart

Ease of use

very easy - slight issue caused by server set up but quickly addressed by developer who updated the product

Support

faultless - answered when he said he would - and went the extra mile

Documentation

documentation was fine

Value for money

yes - definitely

I used this to: a virtuemart store that is used as an online brochure

Instant results while users type ...

Scarpar Insyder (2).
Posted on 20 July 2017

Functionality

Exactly as advertised. It is great.

Ease of use

Awesome for the users. Dead simple, looks good and perfect funtion.

Support

Great ... had minor issues which were fixed quickly.

Documentation

Very good.

Value for money

Great. Part of subscription which was worth every cent. Got this, Forum (discussion) and FAQ which we'll use immediately.

I used this to: Minitek FAQ instant search results. Support great. Will only work (like all Minitek stuff) if your site is error free. In our case, we had errors due to Rokbooster. We turned this off; everything worked perfectly. Existing errors on the site were 90% of our issues with setup.

Great Search Function

Curtis O. Seebeck (9).
Posted on 14 February 2016

Functionality

Works great with FaqBook Pro which is what I wanted it for

Ease of use

I found it a little intimidating before I read the documentation but it was easy set set up and worked right off the bat.

Support

Have not needed support yet.

Documentation

I read and followed the documentation step by step and everything worked as expected on the first try. No issues at all with docs.

Value for money

Well worth the money for FaqBook Pro. It should help reduce the number of duplicate questions tremendously.

I used this to: providing a search function for FaqBook Pro. It is clean, works exactly as I would expect it to, and should drastically cut down on the number of duplicate questions I get. I am sure my customers will really find it useful. Great job Yannis!

Doesn't work properly

Dave (1).
Posted on 13 August 2015

Functionality

Everything worked except the live search component. It kept coming back with no results, though the search page itself was finding articles

Ease of use

Not too easy to set up. Follow the directions 100% and you will get something, but like in our case, may or may not work

Support

Support insisted on access to a clients firewall but they would not allow access to 3rd party. Gave screenshots but no help.

Documentation

Confusing and sparse. Just more or less follow what they wrote to set it up.

Value for money

Would be GREAT value for money if it worked.

I used this to: Joomla website for a large casino. Support refused to help and just issued a refund rather than get on skype and see the problem in action.

Owner's reply: Dear client,

Thank you very much for the review and the feedback.

Minitek Live Search is a two year old extension and it is very stable.

It works out of the box if you follow the simple instructions that are described in our documentation section at http://www.minitek.gr/support/documentation/joomla-extensions/components/minitek-live-search

You say "Support insisted on access to a clients firewall". This is not true. I never insisted on you giving me access to your client's firewall
(You can see the support ticket here: http://www.minitek.gr/images/jed/disp1.jpg).
What I asked was a link to a live site where I can see the problem.

As I explained to you in the support ticket, if I can't see your website it is impossible to know what is the problem.
The screenshots you sent me were inadequate to explain the problem you were facing.

If you had provided me with a live demo version of your website (even a stripped one), I would be happy to assist you and the problem would have been solved within a few minutes.

It's a professional search module/component

Giovanni Ciava Ciavarelli (13).
Posted on 24 July 2015

Functionality

Very good Functionality! It shows results when you are typing so you can get what you need without even writing the whole phrase!

Ease of use

There are a lot of settings because you can have multiple "search modules" for many purposes.Pay attention on configurations and you're done

Support

Support is even better than component! They solved a lot of problems that I had with template issues telling me what to do with css! QUICKLY

Documentation

Online documentation guide you step by step to a simple configuration.

Value for money

When you watch this "Live Search" running on your website ... you'll be glad you payed for It! :-)

I used this to: Some search for my websites ... you can see It on top here: www.impavidapallavolo.it or www.parestrano.it

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