Multiple Result Pages

[RichardS]

Hi

We currently used zoom to index our site and wish to expand it to a second section, I understand this can be done with a catagories, ie all the files under ./documents/ can be put into the documents catagory, but is it possible to (probably via a custom search result page) display have:

Main Search
everything but the documents category

Documents Search
ONLY documents catagory


Richard

[Ray]

Yes, you can certainly create two separate search functions.

You would do this by creating two separate index configurations (or .zcfg files). For example, you would setup one indexer configuration to have a Skip Page entry (under "Configure"->"Skip Options") with "/documents/". Set the output directory to where you want the main search function to be hosted (e.g. "C:\MyWebsite\mainsearch\") Save this configuration as "mainsearch.zcfg".

Then create another indexer configuration which indexes within the documents section specifically (e.g. you can have a start URL like http://mysite.com/documents/index.asp if you are using spider mode), remove the skip list entry for "/documents" (no skip list entry needed because the base URL should automatically prevent any pages outside of your start folder from being indexed). Change the output directory as well, and save this as "documentssearch.zcfg".

If you are using the auto FTP feature, then you will also want to configure the upload folder to be different.

Hope that is clear. Let us know if you need further clarification.

[RichardS]

Thankyou very much

Its working brilliantly.


Richard