Does the search and advanced search works?

Okay, so I need to have two search forms on my site - Smart Search for non FC items and Advanced Search for FC items? Is that right? Cheers

Actually Advanced search will work will other search plugins too, but i will say more very soon

I am using 2.0 RC5 r1315 on Joomla 2.5.4
for now I only have one custom field which is an image field and I don't intend to search through it so I need to be able to search through the core fields like title and description. when I create the menu item for the flexicontent search, the message saying the feature is still under development states that it is at this point possible to search through the titles and descriptions. however the search doesn't retrieve any results. the same happens when I enable the search field for a category. I can't index the articles because it says that it "Cannot index because no flexicontent field(s) use advance search mode."

in the fields manager all the icons for filterable, advanced searchable and searchable are inactive (searchable are displaying ticks and the other two - crosses but they are all greyed-out)

am I missing something? the search plugin is enabled. thanks in advance for your assistance

yeah I was missing something really basic (being able to make a field advanced-searchable from the field edit page). however the search forms from the categories still fail to work, they don't retrieve any results

Please don't use advance search in view J2.5 yet,

The standard search plugin works properly with Joomla's standard search component.

Working is being done to for bugfixing and automating the advanced search feature.

Regards

alright. what's the timeframe for the release of a version with functional advanced search?