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I am not sure why that would post title information into the excerpt column.

The if statement should check for the channel and then route to different urls based on the short channel name.  It is how I route search results in my EE sites.  I haven’t had any issues yet.

Can you post a excerpt from the output source code?  Mainly just one or two rows of results.

Pretty sure this is where you set the search except -  Admin -> Channel Administration -> Channels -> Edit Preferences -> Administrative Preferences

This only takes me to my main Channel admin area, do not see a location to select ‘edit-preferences’.. hhhmm

Pretty sure this is where you set the search except -  Admin -> Channel Administration -> Channels -> Edit Preferences -> Administrative Preferences

This only takes me to my main Channel admin area, do not see a location to select ‘edit-preferences’.. hhhmm

SORRY, nevermind, i see you meant each channel preferences, I see it.. disregard last post

OK, so i’m not sure why, but at least half of my channel admin setting give me no option to select a field for excerpt. Any reason why that would be?

I don’t know the answer to that one.  Maybe someone else does?

OK, so i’m not sure why, but at least half of my channel admin setting give me no option to select a field for excerpt. Any reason why that would be?

Hi, Grounded. Have you assigned custom field groups for those channels? What kinds of fields are you using?

mz91184 Thanks for the assist!

Hi Sue,

Yes, all channels have a custom field group assigned to them. They fields I am needing/trying to search through are mainly ‘textareas’.
Not sure why this is, but the channels that are displaying an option in the admin-preferences to select a field for excerpt, are the channels I have setup as
‘listings’ in the structure module. The other channels I have setup (with custom field groups assigned) show no option to select a field for excerpt in the admin-pref area of the channel

It would appear that my searches are finding matches in the content of those channels, and only finding matches for the entry titles/page titles in the other channels, (so not the content body in those other channels, only the entry/page title…

grounded,

It would appear that my searches are finding matches in the content of those channels, and only finding matches for the entry titles/page titles in the other channels, (so not the content body in those other channels, only the entry/page title…

You need to go and edit those custom fields and make sure search is enabled for them. It is off by default for each new field you make. If you haven’t done this then the dropdown menu for the Search excerpt in your channel preferences will be empty

Does that help?

Ok, was able to make the fields searchable and then I was able to choose the ‘excerpt’ field thanks. A remaining issue though, is the links. mz91184 made a suggestion to fix the links using a ‘if/then’ type code…. would this have to be set for EACH of the channels I am searching then? (I have about 6-7 channels that needs to be searchable..)

Thanks,

Hi grounded,

If you use that method then yes, you would need to add a conditional for each channel. However, you can set default search paths for each channel in its preferences.

Cheers

Greg

Mr. Salt, I see where i can set the default search paths for each channel, but once I update it, there seems to be no change to the links for that channel in the search results. (That sure would be an easy fix if that did work, much better than writing statements for each channel..)

OK, so i tried the code:

{if channel_short_name == 'research'}
            <a href="http://{title_permalink=research}">{title}</a>
        {if:elseif channel_short_name == 'other-channel'}
            <a href="http://{title_permalink=other-channel}">{title}</a>
        {if:else}
            <a href="http://{title_permalink}">{title}</a>
        {/if}

with no luck again, anyone have some more direction to help me out on this?  I guess i am still unsure what goes in the ‘short name’ nad ‘other-channel’ locations from the above syntax.

What is essentially happening is that pages that are children of other pages, do not have the parent directory in the search URL:

Search URL link renders:
http://www.onami.us/index.php/snni

But should be rendering:

http://www.onami.us/index.php/research/snni

Pages that do not have parent pages link just fine….

Thanks for the help, sorry, i’m def a noob 😊

Hi, Grounded.

Let’s have you double check the paths for each of your channels.

Are they all set?

Thanks Sue,

Here are my channel path settings. As you can see, I have entered the search result settings path, but i believe all else is a default setting.
http://grounded4life2.dyndns.tv/onami/pics/channelPaths.png

For the above example, one of the search results URL in that channel, is:

http://www.onami.us/index.php/partner_institutions

When the actual page URL is :

http://www.onami.us/index.php/About/partner-institutions

We’re close to finishing this site and am hesitant to make changes that could have a negative impact on the site, so i’ll wait to hear back before making any changes to the path settings.. 😊