Search only certain news categories?

[sep]

Is it possible to configure the search module so it indexes only certain categories of News? My News contains categories which are only viewable as Custom Content for logged in users (with FOE installed) and I'd like the public search page to index the public categories of news, but not the 'hidden' categories. I've tried to work with modules= and passthru= , but don't seem to be able to get the desired result.

[calguy1000]

No, this currently isn't possible..... it'd take some code hacking.  But it is a good idea.

[sep]

thanks for the quick response calguy. Could you explain what passthru_ does? I didn't quite get it from the help page.

[cb2004]

I think the search should be able to search only certain sections like the menu manager. For example 4 and all its children.

[calguy1000]

it's up to each module to determine if it integrates with search, and if so, how..... so this is not a search module issue, it's a News module issue.

[cb2004]

My issue will be a core issue though wont it?

[calguy1000]

there's a tag you can put into each page to indicate that that page is not searchable. 

[cb2004]

But what if I want all my pages searchable, but then I have a section for employees. I want a search box in this employees section to just search the employees. Or better still I want a drop down populated with employees.

[sep]

I tried the tag in the news templates but that didn't work. So you mean that news would have to be rewritten to tell search whether those particular categories and/or templates allow themselves to be indexed?

[calguy1000]

But what if I want all my pages searchable, but then I have a section for employees. I want a search box in this employees section to just search the employees. Or better still I want a drop down populated with employees.

Yeah, there's no 'category' mechanism in the search or with the pages to only return results from certain pages,  that'd be a core modification.

If you're talking about a user directory thing though, the Userdirectory module could be used for this I think... though I'm not familiar with it.  or the FrontEndUserListing, though I'm not familiar with that either.

[calguy1000]

I tried the tag in the news templates but that didn't work. So you mean that news would have to be rewritten to tell search whether those particular categories and/or templates allow themselves to be indexed?

Yes, the News module would have to be modified.