Funnelback not listing Re-direct Pages

(Oliver Kass) #1

Hi,

 

We have a searchable database of resources on our development site at the moment that uses funnelback to search and display standard page Matrix assets. This is fine for resources that are hosted on our site but I'd also like to be able to signpost to external resources via the database.

 

My thinking was to add these external resources (research reports etc) as Redirect pages underneath the same parent page and use the metadata already in use for standard pages to give the user a preview of the resource but when they click through they are taken to the site where the info is hosted. For some reason though Funnelback isn't pulling the redirect pages through to the database listing...

 

Can anybody think of a reason why this could be happening? I assumed that there wouldn't be a restriction on the types of assets listed as it's just looking down a tree of assets and their metadata...

 

Oli

(Bart Banda) #2

If I'm understanding your set up correctly, this might be due to Funnelback not being set to either follow 301 remaps, or not set to index the external resource you are pointing to. Funnelback will only index the URLs and records of the domains and data repositories you have told it to specifically index in it's configuration. 

 

Does that make sense? If that's the case, have a look through the http://docs.funnelback.com/ to see if there is some info there on how to achieve what you are after. Alternatively, contact Funnelback support directly for further assistance. 

(Cgrist) #3

I think that Funnelback will follow the redirect and either 

a) discard it because it's an external domain or

b) index it because its' on an included domain, but it will index it as the target URL, not as a page in your site

 

you could do this with a JavaScript based redirect but not a server redirect, if you want the landing page within your site to be part of the funnelback search results

(Oliver Kass) #4

Hi Bart / Chris,

 

Thanks for your responses. I just assumed that as the Redirect Asset and it's metadata is in Matrix, in the same tree as the Standard pages, that Funnelback would pick it up automatically and display it in the search results?

 

I've attached a screenshot of how the metadata is displayed in the matrix generated assets listings on the front end. You can see the top asset is a redirect page the assets below are standard pages.

 

I've also attached the Funnelback display which isn't picking up the redirect page.

 

Does this make the problem any clearer or does what you've already said still apply?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Oli

 

 

 

 

 

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(Oliver Kass) #5

Hi guys,

 

Just to let you know I figured this out. The problem was that the XML feed (asset listing) going to FB was only set to display Standard Pages. All I needed to do was add redirect pages to Asset Types to List.

 

Oli

(Cgrist) #6

ah ok cool, sorry I didn't realise you were indexing an XML feed, I thought you were just using normal HTTP crawl which would get redirected