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Xianfox -> Search Help (8/2/2002 14:50:17)

I' ve (finally) gotten permission to redo our organization' s website. Now I need a bit of help with my site' s search ability.

First a bit of background. The site was initially developed several years ago by someone with no electronic publishing experience whatsoever. I was brought on a year ago to maintain it, along with a few other sites. I' ve convinced them to redo the site.

With this redo, we want to have separate areas for Visitors, Members, Media, Educators, etc. Some of the information that we have on the site will overlap multiple categories.

What I need to do is support a system whereby a person in the Visitor' s section doing a search would only find results from the Visitor' s section. For information that overlaps say the Visitor' s and Media sections, I do not wish to maintain two individual copies, but rather use something like page includes to pull the content in from a central location.

We are presently using FP2000 (upgrading to FP2002 is an option). Does anyone have any experience with such a setup?

TIA
Brian



bobby -> RE: Search Help (8/2/2002 15:02:09)

Welcome to OutFront!

I don' t have a lot of " experience" with this, but I' ve been playing with a few ideas along a similar line. I have some ideas with regards to one site in particular that I manage, and have been playing on an Intranet for a couple of weeks - testing some theories [:p]

What I' ve discovered (at least for my purposes) is that a database is the best way to go.

Using Includes would work just fine for static pages, but you' d need to still maintain seperate sections of the site for each individual group, etc. If the info did not overlap it would be easy... you could just have pages for each individual group status.

With overlapping content you either have to create more pages (some for content intended for specific groups, and more for overlapping within each group) or use a scripting method that can detect what status the user has, and write each page accordingly...

Using a database and ASP you can require that people log into the site, and based on their status assign a code (like a single digit number). Storing that number in a session variable or a cookie would enable you to build content based on their status.

It would use a lot of If... the user status is X then do Y... Else do Z... kind of coding.

There may be an easier way to do it, but this is the basic idea I' ve come up with for my application... I have yet to put it in motion so I' m sure I' ll run into a few road blocks and probably make some interesting discoveries along the way!

So far I think planning it out properly is far more difficult than I anticipate the actual execution will be [:D]



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