Having trouble with Categories

[Anonymous]

I searched the forums but can't seem to find out what I'm doing wrong. I have set up categories based on folder names, in alphabetical order. I'm starting my indexing offline inside my /archives/ directory. From there, there are directories /contracts, /forumminutes, /generalminutes, /grievances, and /newsletters.

Under Categories in the configuration I start with Contracts with pattern: /contracts/ I do the same for all the folders, then have a default category as Misc. Archives

Currently I only have one file to search (I'm debugging). It's a .doc inside the /contracts folder. However, when I run a search with a keyword that finds it, it always places it in the Misc. Archives category. The hyperlink for the file clearly shows it reading the filepath as being in /contracts.

What am I doing wrong in identifying my categories? I've tried other patterns: /contracts, contracts, "contracts", "/contracts/" etc. I also tried my offline index start location from a step down from /archives, but got the same results.

You can take a look yourself at:
http://www.local243.org/past/search/search.php
Just search for "project"

Thank you!

[Ray]

It sounds like you've done everything correctly, but it could be a subtle thing such as having an extra space character at the end of your pattern, eg. "/contracts/ "

You can email us your ZCFG file and we can take a closer look.

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much for replying. I responded and sent an email with my ZCFG file. Hopefully you will see what I'm missing! Honestly, I did change a lot of settings, so maybe it's something unrelated.

By the way, I am also curious if the search could include unincorporated file types, if there is a .desc file associated with them. For example, while debugging I'm using a .sql file that I just happened to upload. I made a .desc file to go with it, so ZOOM could read it, but obviously ZOOM doesn't support .sql files. Can I set it up to read any .desc files it comes across? I haven't attempted to include .sql in the list of possible file types; perhaps that's the way to do it, but I'm just curious at this time.

Thanks again for your time!

[David]

Got the file. You are using offline mode and the categories pattern is matched against the file path not the URL in offline mode.

So try using \contracts\ instead of /contracts/

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Regards
David