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title: Search Options
slug: search-options
createdAt: 2025-06-11T20:26:19.222Z
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This document outlines options for configuring Activate Full Text Indexing.

Configuration for Activate Searching is stored in //Resources/Configuration/Search



| **Name**         | **Description**                                                                                                                                                                     |
| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| en-StopWords     | This is a list of 'stop' words that are ignored during indexing and searching. Common english words are common ignored to prevent matches for words like 'a', 'as', 'it' 'and' etc. |
| SearchDefaults   | The search defaults allows overriding of some default search information. See below for more information                                                                            |
| LastIndexRefresh | This is used by the Web Site to control when a last partial index update was performed. This should not be changed manually.                                                        |
| MaxFTResults     | The maximum number of FT search results that are returned from the FT. The default value is 50.                                                                                     |
| SqlTimeout       | The maximum number of seconds to wait for the SQL query to run. The default value is 600 seconds (ie 10 minutes).                                                                   |

## User Description

A description can be shown for each user account that is displayed during a full text index search. The description is turned off by default. It can be turned on in 'SearchDefaults' by changing ['USER/description/@display'](#) to 'true'.

The following describes how the description is generated.

- The description shown is the 'description' column that is stored in the database in the ADCache table.
- The axDescription is used to populate the 'description' column whenever a users cache is updated. The default axDescription points to the users 'description' AD attribute. You may change this attribute to a different attribute. But must resync all the users to update the cache.
- If the axDescription is updated, then the Full Text index must be fully regenerated to get this information.
- It is suggested that the axDescription field be updated during a user update with a short description for the user. (ie %=/title%, %=/phoneNumber%)