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Search Asset returns URLs  (#170)
Issue

We'd like search returns to show the pages that a matching asset is on, rather than (or in addition to) a link to the asset itself.

For example, I have a page titled "Red Products" and on that page is an article with introductory text, a second article with a table of red products, a third article with a picture of selected products and perhaps a data form for ordering. If a user enters "apples" into the search box I want them to see a link to the "Red Products" page and not to the article containing the red products.

Response to this request originally posted in the support forum:

"It is possible to retreive the page the asset lives on and make the url to that page (if it exists) available through the UI, but that is not currently a property of the search asset and would need to be a feature enhancement."

Thanks,
Andrew 

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Jesse
0
9/5/2006 10:01 pm

I second this one.  There's no reason we'd ever want anything but pages personally, but some way of selecting this would be nice. 

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Jesse
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2/5/2007 8:03 pm

To accomplish the above I propose the following:

New option in search asset - Search output to return only these Asset classes - this is much like the option 'Limit Asset classes to:' - but instead it limits the output of the search to those classes using the following steps:

  • search assets and find all assets matching keywords
  • iterate through the resultant assets - if asset class is not on list of above returned classes, then check it's parent class and return that - if that is not on above returned classes either - check it's grandparent.  (can either stop there, or keep on going - I can't think of any cases where you'd want more, but you never know)
  • filter out duplicates (as two objects may have the same parent) - but perhaps those pages should be higher ranked if they come up with more hits.

Example of use:

User selects Page Layouts and CS Threads as only asset classes returned.  Any other objects that have matches will traverse up through their parents until they hit a page layout or thread.

Jesse

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elnino
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7/17/2007 5:50 pm

This is necessary.  - or atleast if the asset can be open in a new window fine, but if it isn't, the search should return the page that the matching asset is found.. Has this been addresssed?  I think it's a bug personally...

 

LN 

JT
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10/26/2007 11:27 am
Added in
limedzeze
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1/13/2009 6:06 pm
Sorry, but was this ever fixed?
It really doesn't make sense to me that the search results return the Article URL and not the parent URL of the article. What if there are multiple articles in a page layout?
For example, if I search for the word "interface" and there is an article on my home page that contains the word "interface" the search results return and link to the article containing the word "interface" instead of my home page.
If it has been fixed, then please chalk this up to my newness to WebGUI. However, I can't figure out how to have the link in the search results link to the parent, if it's possible.
Thanks
Liam
elnino
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1/13/2009 7:51 pm
Yep it was!!  I don't remember what version it was.   I'm a little behind myself.. There is a setting in the navigation asset that you check for "return parent url" or "parent container" or something like that. Welcome aboard!
JT
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1/13/2009 7:54 pm
I believe the version is 7.5 that it was added in. And it's a display property in the search asset.
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Ticket Status Closed  
Rating5.0 
Submitted By aimtec  
Date Submitted2006-06-27 
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Date Assigned 2012-02-11  
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URLrfe/request-for-enhancement/search-asset-returns-urls
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