How to exclude article containers from SimpleSearch results

Hi there,

for some random reason, my SimpleSearch call can't seem to exclude articles from search results although I specify the containers in the call. I can easily restrict the search to a specific container by specifying it in the &id parameter, but excluding it with the &exclude parament doesn't affect the children.

Here's the call



It works just fine if I specify the articles individually, but we're talking hundreds of resources -- It's simple not efficient.

Anyone?

I think you'll want a posthook and "faceted" search. The posthook snippet in your case would have something about "WHERE parent NOT IN (list-of-Articles-container-IDs)"

http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/SimpleSearch.Faceted+Search+Through+PostHooks

Quote from: sottwell at Jan 07, 2013, 01:19 AM

I think you'll want a posthook and "faceted" search. The posthook snippet in your case would have something about "WHERE parent NOT IN (list-of-Articles-container-IDs)"

http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/SimpleSearch.Faceted+Search+Through+PostHooks

Thx @sottwell -- I guess I'll have to spend some time on this. It'll be great if this functionality made it into future versions of SSearch.