News

With this indexer you can index news from the extension “news” (extension key “news”, not “tt_news”).

The following fields will be indexed: title, teaser, content, author, author E-Mail, keywords.

Access limitations will be taken into account. You can either index all news or news from certain categories.

Filtering with system categories

The extension “news” allows you to categorize with categories, keywords and tags.

In order to use news with facetting, indexed news get tagged automatically. But you will still have to create a filter option with the corresponding tag.

These tags are generated as follows:

  • from news-categories (system-categories)
  • from news-keywords
  • from news-tags

Example: If you want to filter for seasons, you can use the news categories “summer” and “winter”. In ke_search you will then have to add the filter options eg. “All about the summer” and “Winter stuff” with the tags corresponding to the categories names: “summer” and “winter”. Make sure the categories and the ke_search tags are spelled the same. For tags and keywords it’s the same principle.

The following characters will be removed when generating the tag: # ( ) _ as well as comma and space.

For categories there will also be tags which are based on the string “syscat” and the id of the cateogry, eg. “syscat123”. This tags don’t change if the category name changes.

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To automatically create and update filters for these tags, see Using system categories for filtering.

In the indexer configuration you can set a target page. When a news appears in the result list, the link will go to that page. On that page there has to be a news plugin showing the detail view.

If a news has a category assigned to it which has an alternative single view page, this page will be used as target page.

Configuration

In order to index news, create a new indexer configuration an configure it as follows:

  • title: just for internal use
  • record storage page: the sysfolder all your search data is saved on.
  • target page: The page your news detail view plugin is placed on.
  • type: has to be “News (news)”.
  • record storage page(s) single/recursive: Sysfolders with news data to index.
  • Category selection: Here you can define if you want to index all news or just news from selected categories. Important: This selection is not recursive. You have to select each category individually if you don’t select “all”.
  • Add tag(s) of parent sysfolder: If you added a tag to the sysfolder containing news, this / these tag(s) will be added to the news index entry.
  • File indexer: Define which extensions of related files will be indexed.
  • Attached files should be handled as: Define if the contents of related files will be indexed as separate index records or as content of the news index record.
  • Add tag to all indexed elements: You can select an already existing filter option / tag to add it to all indexed elements.