I’m finding that the volume of PDFs on our site are overwhelming my search results. (Yes, we do need to search the PDFs.)
I know that I could up the weighting of pages so they always outranked PDFs but sometimes the PDF will be what people are looking for and a page may be nearly irrelevant in comparison.
As a solution I thought I could group the results by type code and then display them in separate columns; pages in a single column on the left, PDFs in a single column on the right.
I’m after something like this page (not a Matrix site): search result columns.
Obviously separating them into types is not hard, but getting them into the single column each is a lot harder!
Anyone got any ideas?
[quote]I’m finding that the volume of PDFs on our site are overwhelming my search results. (Yes, we do need to search the PDFs.)
I know that I could up the weighting of pages so they always outranked PDFs but sometimes the PDF will be what people are looking for and a page may be nearly irrelevant in comparison.
As a solution I thought I could group the results by type code and then display them in separate columns; pages in a single column on the left, PDFs in a single column on the right.
I’m after something like this page (not a Matrix site): search result columns.
Obviously separating them into types is not hard, but getting them into the single column each is a lot harder!
Anyone got any ideas?[/quote]
I would think that in your group format body copy you could just wrap a div around the group listing, giving it a class and floating all the divs with that class. This would give you nice columns. Now, if the number of columns might vary depending on search results…that might be tricky.