Lucene and Local Search Overview

To help us use the built-in search engine, and make it easier to remember the existence of it, the basic links are now available in the menu when opening the Tech Doc tab.

The index must be regenerated with regular intervals or after major changes to the documentation, to stay up-to-date. (Actually, to be completely up to date, it has to be regenerated each time there is a change to any document within the gt/doc/ hierarchy.)

It might be a good idea to let forrest be running all the time - any changes to the documentation will be picked up automatically as you update from cvs (with the exception of changes to site-frags.xml and tabs-frags.xml - you need to touch the corresponding main files site.xml and tabs.xml for the changes to be picked up).

Our public home page is searched with Google, but you can still search the local copy of Forrest with the latest document updates. The default search box is now Lucene based. The only thing to remember is to update the Lucene index:

http://localhost:8888/lucene-update.html — or use the menu entry to the left.

After the index has been (re)generated, just type in your search string in the search box at the top of every page, and press Enter.