Content Search for option lists

[NP]

I've set up an option list field for all pages in a project that can be used to identify the "state" of a page. That is, you can select options like "Needs Revisions", "Candidate for removal", etc. Content authors need to be able to get at a list of all pages matching a particular status so that they can run down the list and make revisions to the pages that need them. At first I thought that we might be able to do this with Management Server's built-in search functionality by giving the option list values that are highly unlikely to show up in web content. So I created a custom search using "content" as the search criteria, but it seems that option list values aren't searched by this. Is there a way that authors can easily search for option list values? Or maybe someone can recommend another way to implement this?

[Tony Gayter]

A quick way to do this would be to have state keywords and pull these into lists on pages outside of the site (eg onto admin pages).

Or you could use nav manager to go through all the pages and depending on the selected state add it to the output.

The second suggestion would probably be a much cleaner way to do it

On Sep 30, 2012 9:41 PM, "NP" <napa...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've set up an option list field for all pages in a project that can be used to identify the "state" of a page. That is, you can select options like "Needs Revisions", "Candidate for removal", etc. Content authors need to be able to get at a list of all pages matching a particular status so that they can run down the list and make revisions to the pages that need them. At first I thought that we might be able to do this with Management Server's built-in search functionality by giving the option list values that are highly unlikely to show up in web content. So I created a custom search using "content" as the search criteria, but it seems that option list values aren't searched by this. Is there a way that authors can easily search for option list values? Or maybe someone can recommend another way to implement this?

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[Nathan Palmer]

The state keywords idea did occur to me but there is one snag there: a way to apply keywords to pages en masse. That is, there are a few hundred pages already in the system and they should all default to "Needs review". Is there a quick way to apply that keyword to all of them or does it need to be assigned individually?

I like the nav manager suggestion and will pursue that for now, though it does leave open the question of how to handle pages that aren't in nav manager, such as news lists.

I take the silence to mean that there is no way to search on the contents of a particular placeholder within the CMS or to add it to the index.

[Jian Huang]

Hi,

First solution: you can preassign keywords to content classes, so when a page is created, it automatically inherits the keywords.  What about existing pages?  Well, there is a plugin that retro active applies back the keywords.

Second solution: I was going to say, what about pages that are not in navigation manager?  What if i have 3000+ pages in navigation manager and I started the search, any way to cancel it?  There isn't any way to cancel manager, then the server perform just goes down until that is done.  Also, using the navigation manager method would need to use Elements.GetElement() rendertag, which causes enormous memory consumption, known to introduce other project performance issues.

Third option: Please find attached a plugin I wrote that is 7.x to 10.x compatible that find page instances with specific option list value.  Import plugin, activate it, assign to project.  Go to the content class you want to search, expand content elements, select the option list, find plugin link at bottom of action menu.

Best,

-Jian

[Nathan Palmer]

Jian, the plugin option is very attractive very, very close to what I'm looking for. I installed the plugin and tested it out. It seems to only give search results for items with an option list value that has been explicitly selected by a content author. That is to say, it doesn't pick up default values. Since this field has just been introduced, just about every page on the site has a default value assigned and the problem is similar to the retroactive keyword problem.

Is there a way to make this plugin see default values? I would prefer to use the plugin method as it integrates very nicely with the structure we've already got. Otherwise it sounds like keyword + retroactive keyword plugin will do the trick with minimal changes.

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[Jian Huang]

Doh'!

I must have grabbed not the latest version that the fix.  I will upload latest version tomorrow.

-Jian

[Jian Huang]

The latest plugin, I think.

[Jian Huang]

Tested and confirmed functionality.

Nathan, are you using this personal work or customer project deployment?

[Nathan Palmer]

Thanks Jian, this is exactly what I needed. FYI, I had to edit the URL of the plugin to FindPageWithOptionListValue/index.asp. It was still trying to reference FindPageWithElementValue/index.asp by default.

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