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Harvey
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Apr 26, 2008, 2:15 PM
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Currently, using both the search engine on the back end and on the site, users get no results when using a category as the search place of search. Category pages will not include results, because nothing is really published on them. Only real articles pages can be searched.
Is there a way to correct this? For a user, the natural way to search.
That would mean that top categories, also include in their results, searches from sub categories.
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Jake
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Apr 27, 2008, 1:56 PM
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Hi Harvey,
I'm not quite sure what you're after here - would you mind elaborating on this a bit for me? Were you trying to search for content in category fields or something else?
I look forward to your reply. 
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Harvey
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Apr 28, 2008, 9:11 PM
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By default, when one does a search on the Web site - not the manager, only articles included in subcategories will appear.
If I have a section on my site about cars, than another sub category within cars about mini vans, I cannot search the cars category to search for articles within the minivans subcategory. I will get no results, because the search engines does not pay attention to articles contained within the minivans' category.
Because users are not expected to be experts, I want to make it easy for them to search for results by just using the cars' category.
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MikeB
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Apr 29, 2008, 10:35 AM
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Hi Harvey,
Thanks for posting!
There actually is an option in Article Manager where you can tell the search form to also search subcategories, does this sound like something that will work for you?
If you have a search form that you're using that isn't including the subcategories, you'll want to find the code for this search form and add this line of code after the opening <form> tag:
<input type="hidden" name="includeSubcats" id="includeSubcats" value="1"/>
I'm not sure exactly which search form you're referring to so if you can provide me with the HTML code for the search form, I'll let you know exactly where you'll want to add this line of code.
I hope this helps!
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Harvey
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Apr 29, 2008, 6:44 PM
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By default, it already searches in sub categories. It's the main categories that I'm interested in.
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MikeB
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Apr 30, 2008, 1:26 PM
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Hi Harvey,
Thanks for the post!
I apologize, it looks like I'm not following here. So you'd like to have the top-level categories searched when a customer selects a subcategory of that? From your example above, if "Mini-Vans" is a subcategory below "Cars", you'd like to bring up results from the "Cars" category when someone searches just in the category "Mini-Vans"?
If this is the case, there isn't a way to set this up. With Article Manager users have the ability to search a specific category and are also given the option to search any subcategories of that but there won't be a way to have that search broadened to search the parent category as well.
I hope this helps Harvey!
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Harvey
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May 3, 2008, 8:31 AM
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The code you gave me - <input type="hidden" name="includeSubcats" id="includeSubcats" value="1"/> - worked fine!
Thanks
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