This documentation provides instructions on how to use the Project Endings staticSearch Generator to provide a fully-functional search ‘engine’ to your website without any dependency on server-side code such as a database.

•  1 What does it do?
•  2 What do I need in order to use this?
•  3 Why would I use it?
•  4 Text search features
•  5 Search facet features
•  6 Search page captions
•  7 How do I get it?
•  8 How do I use it?
  •  8.1 Configuring your site: search filters
    • 8.1.1 Description filters
      • 8.1.1.1 Sort order for description filters
    • 8.1.2 Date filters
    • 8.1.3 Number filters
    • 8.1.4 Boolean filters
    • 8.1.5 Feature filters
  •  8.2 Configuring your site: document titles
  •  8.3 Configuring your site: document sort keys
  •  8.4 Configuring your site: document thumbnails
  •  8.5 Creating a configuration file
    • 8.5.1 Quickstart: Example configuration (with defaults)
    • 8.5.2 The config element
    • 8.5.3 Specifying parameters
      • 8.5.3.1 Required parameters
      • 8.5.3.2 Optional parameters
    • 8.5.4 Specifying rules (optional)
    • 8.5.5 Specifying contexts (optional)
    • 8.5.6 Specifying searchable contexts (search only in)
    • 8.5.7 Specifying exclusions (optional)
  •  8.6 Creating a search page
  •  8.7 Running the search build process
  •  8.8 Running staticSearch from Ant
  •  8.9 Generated report
  •  8.10 Advanced features
    • 8.10.1 Custom attributes
    • 8.10.2 Highlighting search hits on target pages
•  9 How does it work?
  •  9.1 Building the index
  •  9.2 The search page
  •  9.3 JavaScript compilation
  •  9.4 The JavaScript Initializer file
• 10 How do I...
• 11 Programming with staticSearch
• 12 What's new between versions?
  • 12.1 Changes in version 2.0.0
• 13 Projects using staticSearch

• Appendix A Schema specification and tag documentation
  • Appendix A.1 Elements
    • Appendix A.1.1 <config>
    • Appendix A.1.2 <context>
    • Appendix A.1.3 <contexts>
    • Appendix A.1.4 <createContexts>
    • Appendix A.1.5 <dictionary>
    • Appendix A.1.6 <exclude>
    • Appendix A.1.7 <excludes>
    • Appendix A.1.8 <filter>
    • Appendix A.1.9 <filters>
    • Appendix A.1.10 <index>
    • Appendix A.1.11 <output>
    • Appendix A.1.12 <params>
    • Appendix A.1.13 <results>
    • Appendix A.1.14 <rule>
    • Appendix A.1.15 <rules>
    • Appendix A.1.16 <scoringAlgorithm>
    • Appendix A.1.17 <searchPage>
    • Appendix A.1.18 <span>
    • Appendix A.1.19 <stemmer>
    • Appendix A.1.20 <stopwords>
    • Appendix A.1.21 <tokenizer>
    • Appendix A.1.22 <version>
  • Appendix A.2 Attribute classes
    • Appendix A.2.1 att.labelled
    • Appendix A.2.2 att.match
  • Appendix A.3 Datatypes
    • Appendix A.3.1 ssdata.boolean