Does the search and advanced search works?

I face exactly the same problem. I disabled all the Joomla search plug-ins and put the FLEXIadvsearch Module into action. All I get is a blank page with:

Fatal error: Cannot access protected property FLEXIcontentViewSearch::$_models in ...\components\com_flexicontent\controller.php on line 1195

Both of the FC plug-ins are enabled (Search - Flexicontent standard search + ADV Search - FLEXIcontent)

There were 2 important and complicated things that need fixing and a lot of work in v2.0, the permissions (take a look at how many we have, i really tried to make descriptions friendly on them) and the advanced search view (=> search inside various flexicontent fields).


The permissions were fixed, the advanced search view is not yest, BUT , you can use flexicontent standard search plugin, it has many options too, you cannot search all types of fields but you can search with it:

Types, Title, Description, Tags, Text fields, limit to language, include unauthorized items (create links and then require login)

So for now use Joomla component com_search and make sure that these are disabled:
1. Joomla content search plugin
2. FLEXIcontent advanced search plugin

leave enabled only:
FLEXIcontent standard search plugin

I get search results only when I enable the Joomla plug-in "Search - Content" as well.

Apart from that I think it would be better to make FC work with Joomla's new "Smart Search". Otherwise we need to have two search boxes on the website - one that finds FC content and one for Joomla content and other third party components which support "Smart Search".

actualy we finished to fix advenced search for joomla 2.5
i think we do a plugin for smart search for next release

We had to desactivate the com_search plugin in order to advanced work.

This error appeard:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare plgSearchContentAreas() (previously declared in /var/www/misite/plugins/search/flexisearch.php:95) in /var/www/mysite/plugins/search/content.php on line 31

Found a bug I think.

I have activated category ID in the module:
-item id 189 | title: Advanced search
I have activated SEF

how to reproduce:
1- go to a menu item that points to a FC category:
wwww.mysite.com/cars
2- in the advaned search module search for something:
opel
3- this is what i spected:
www.mysite.com/advanced-search?searchword=opel
4- what it gave me:
www.mysite.com/cars/index.php?searchwor ... Itemid=189
5- so we have 2 probelms here 1 it is not respecting sef anf 2 it is not respecting my item id selection even if it adding to the Query.