Printing Search Results

Back onto the Search questions again

  1. When the print design is called on the search results asset, ie, ?SQ_DESIGN_NAME=printer_friendly, is there a way to force it to print the ‘Results Page Layout’ and not the ‘Initial Page Layout’?


  2. Can you restrict images and other certain assets from being searched on in the search? For example if the word ‘journey’ was searched on, this would display normal page assets and any images with the keyword 'journey' in the image title. As a website rule for the website the search should not search on image assets.



    thanks

[quote]2. Can you restrict images and other certain assets from being searched on in the search? 
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Matrix only searches the asset types you tell it to search. Check the configuration of your search page and remove the image asset type (or make the asset assignments more specific – e.g. remove File and add PDF).

[quote]Matrix only searches the asset types you tell it to search. Check the configuration of your search page and remove the image asset type (or make the asset assignments more specific – e.g. remove File and add PDF).
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Unfortuantely if I remove ‘File’ and add ‘PDF File’, this will restrict the RTF and XLS files from being searched on. It would be good to have a restriction in this section.

[quote]Unfortuantely if I remove ‘File’ and add ‘PDF File’, this will restrict the RTF and XLS files from being searched on. It would be good to have a restriction in this section.
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We do :slight_smile:



Add PDF and keep File, but disable “Inherit Types” for the File asset type – that way, it’ll only find the generic File assets, and not the images.

I suspect your printer friendly link is not including the query string vars. There is an option in the design area to print them when printing the URL of the current asset. Something like this is useful:

    SQ_DESIGN_NAME=printer_friendly" target="_blank" title="Printer Friendly Version">Printer Friendly Version

great stuff, they both worked!!
thanks to both of you