Exclude from Search

Squiz Matrix Support
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I cannot find how to exclude certain assets in the asset tree from being found in the search. How is this possible?

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In the Search Manager asset, you can change Weighting by Asset, Tree location or Globally. Check the Search Manual for more information.

3

So there is no way of preventing specific pages from being indexed? I could only find exclude fields in the Search Manual, which is not seeming to be what I need. I am looking to hide pages that I have used for nested content.

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Yes, you can hide assets, whole sections of the tree, asset types and metadata. You do it all through the search manager. Select a specific asset and then disable indexing for it.

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Thanks Greg :slight_smile:

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You have to reindex to see the changes, right?

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That's right. But just reindex the asset you want to exclude rather than the whole system.

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Using the Search Manager to exclude assets in a distributed publishing environment is a huge pain, and clearly not an option for a large website.


We have found a workaround for this by using a metadata field to select Include in search - yes (value=INDEX) and Include in search - no (value=NOINDEX) and modifying the code for the search pages to exclude assets where “Include in search” = NOINDEX.



More details are available here.

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[quote]Using the Search Manager to exclude assets in a distributed publishing environment is a huge pain, and clearly not an option for a large website.


We have found a workaround for this by using a metadata field to select Include in search - yes (value=INDEX) and Include in search - no (value=NOINDEX) and modifying the code for the search pages to exclude assets where “Include in search” = NOINDEX.



More details are available here.[/quote]

Hi Katen - this sounds like exactly what we need, but the link you’ve provided doesn’t seem to be working. Could you provide any more information on how you achieved this?



Thanks!