Recommended links

[aschecht]

Just starting to add some Recommended links - yet another great feature in Zoom Search - and have some questions/observations.

Documentation for import format for Recommended links
I am importing the Recommended links into the configuration but couldn't find anywhere in the documentation the required format for imported data. I was able to figure this out by manually adding a Recommended link, exporting the file and looking at the structure of the export. I never would have guessed that vertical bars were the required field separator. Maybe I missed it in the docs but if not it would be good if this could be added to the documentation for other users.

Recommended links seem to ignore synonym list
I'm finding that Recommended links don't pay attention to the synonyms list. For example, I've set a synonym for gallstone=gallstones and a Recommended link for gallstone. The Recommended link shows for gallstone but not for its synonym gallstones. If there's a way to do this other than adding a separate Recommended link for each synonym term, please let me know. If not, this feature would make a nice addition to a future version.

Multiple keywords and/or keyword phrases for each Recommended link
I would find it useful if I could list multiple keywords and/or key phrases as triggers for a single Recommended link. Is this possible? If not, is it feasible to consider this for a future version?

Thanks,

Andrew

[wrensoft]

Here is a quote from the help file.

If you have a large list of recommended links to add or maintain, you can import them from a text file created by any text editor. The file needs to be pipe separated (the pipe is the vertical '|' character), with a recommended link entry per line. For example:
Keyword1|http://www.url1.com/|Page title|This is the page description
Keyword2|http://www.url2.com/|Another Page title|This is the page description for the 2nd page

You can also export an existing list of recommended links to a text file of this same format. This way you can maintain them outside of Zoom if need be, and/or import them back in to other ZCFG files.


To have multiple words (or phrases) match a single URL, then you need to create an entry per word or phrase. e.g. a copy and paste if you are importing a file.

I would need to check on the interaction between recomended links and synonyms.

[aschecht]

Thanks. Now I see that the Zoom Search Engine Indexer's built-in help file details importing Recommended Links. The info seems to be missing in the User Guide.pdf (it would be a good addition for the next update).

If synonyms could trigger Recommend Links too, it would save me (and maybe others) a lot of repetitive entries in the Recommended Links configuration. A wish list item?

Thanks again as always for the prompt and thorough support.

Andrew

[Ray]

You're right, the Users Guide is due for an update. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Recommended links seem to ignore synonym list
I'm finding that Recommended links don't pay attention to the synonyms list. For example, I've set a synonym for gallstone=gallstones and a Recommended link for gallstone. The Recommended link shows for gallstone but not for its synonym gallstones. If there's a way to do this other than adding a separate Recommended link for each synonym term, please let me know. If not, this feature would make a nice addition to a future version.

We'll keep this in mind but it's not quite trivial to add. Recommended links support phrases, and synonyms do not, so there are some fundamental differences in the way they work.

Multiple keywords and/or keyword phrases for each Recommended link
I would find it useful if I could list multiple keywords and/or key phrases as triggers for a single Recommended link. Is this possible? If not, is it feasible to consider this for a future version?

This is currently not supported. But I think we can consider this for the next major release. I'll add it to our list.

[aschecht]

Excellent. Thanks.

Andrew