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1/22/2010 6:33 PM
 

I put this in another forum, but I think it was the wrong spot as I've got no responses.  I have text/html modules on my for things like a footer (links to different pages on the site), some boilerplate text that shows on many pages, etc.  When I do a site wide search I don't want to find any of these modules.  Is there a way to specify Module X should not be included in the search but Module Y should?

 
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1/22/2010 7:14 PM
 

not at present - whether content is indexed is controlled by whether it has a relevant businesscontroller that supports indexing. This happens at the module level, so you could do this by cloning the html module, altering it's namespace, removing the businesscontroller, repackaging it and installing it i.e. you would have 2 modules , html and htm_noindex.

FYI  We were asking discussing this just the other day during a core trustee meeting, and one of the trustees had a suggestion for coding a solution to allow it to be enabled at the module instance level i.e. a checkbox in module settings. I believe they are going to try and code this enhancement and submit it for a future release.

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1/22/2010 7:26 PM
 

Ironically, when this search solution was first conceived, that requirement was included.  The original idea was that the search module could actually be configurable to specify specific modules / module instances so that search could be implemented as a functional search(es), rather than site wide only.  But this was not included in the initial development and not asked for enough to get prioritization.

Cathal, perhaps we should talk to the team about this aspect and see what kind of response we get?


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1/22/2010 7:28 PM
 

Thanks for the info Cathal, although it's not what I hoped.  I could clone the module, and other modules that I don't want indexed.  But that means having multiple copies of multiple modules that I have to maintain going forward.... not the most ideal solution.  I guess I'll have to wait for the enhancement to come out, or write my own indexer.

I have written a module for users to select which pages they want to include in a search.  I suppose I could go a similar route and have it for admins only.  It will list all of the modules on a selected page and they can choose if it should/should not be included in the search.  This puts all of the config in one spot rather than at the individual modules. 

Thx again for the info.  It at least gives me a direction to go, a tough direction but a direction none the less.

 
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1/23/2010 6:50 AM
 

there is an old DNN3 module USearchModule from Eck Two, still available for download from www.dnnportal.de, which allows you to exclude modules from search and  include header/footer in search as well (another enhancement has been created by Stefan Cullmann and is provided on Codeplex.com). But I definately agree, the search indexing should be enhanced to optionally exclude a module or include header and footer text as well as page description.


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