Thread: Can topics be included in search results?

It does not appear that the search function will include topics in search results. For instance, if a user searches for "returns" the topic which is titled "Returns" is not displayed for the user.

Is there any administrative configuration that can be tweaked to allow for topic searching?

If there is no admin configuration that allows this, do you have any advice for how to implement such a feature in a way that doesn't compromise search performance?

thx,
Jason

We don't search topics by default, even with the advanced search. Doing that would take some modifications. I would take a look at the default search logic (search.aspx(.cs), page.search.xml.config, and the aspdnsf_GetProducts sproc) and copy that to add the new functionality. It would probably be easiest to add second sproc specifically for topics (you could even add an option to the search page to include it or not). The performance hit shouldn't be too bad.

Pm me an email address bluebolt and I'll send you the code we recently implemented to do this.

Originally Posted by mgibbs

Pm me an email address bluebolt and I'll send you the code we recently implemented to do this.

Hi Mike!

I'm looking for a way to include topics in the admin search funciton. Will your code mod do give us that?

Yes this can be done wihtout modifying the source code, you'll need to change the stored procedure to retrieve results form the topic table. A simple join should do the trick.

Hi,

I need to include topics in the search also. Would appreciate if you could share the code.

Thanks