Integrating Community Server :: Forums with intra-site search tool
At the moment, I'm working on revamping
my site's search tool, which currently returns a resultset consisting of a nicely-separated collection of full-text indexed news articles from
my station's archive, plus a series of multimedia exhibits the URLs for which we hardcode into a database (searchable via keywords, a la AOL).
This has worked beautifully for us, given that we're a TV/radio/web operation, and can cross-promote the hell out of whatever we do. People really enjoy the diversity of the results. Now, I'm taking it a step further.
The next version is going to finally integrate two other key components: reporter/producer blogs, and also forum posts from the recently-released
Community Server :: Forums. The entire thing is basically a bunch of DataTables, cleanly making distinction between what results came from where.
It's pretty fun.