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iftomkins
Maven
12 years ago
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How to exclude duplicate topics from search results?

We are using a modified version of the search component. We'd like to exclude topics marked by moderators "duplicate" from showing in the results of this particular search component.   How can we f...
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HaidongG
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
12 years ago

Hi iftomkins ,

 

you are talking about ideas, isn't it?

 

for status id or status key, i believe that you should use status key, status id is just a number. you can verify the status id and status key via 

http://community.lithium.com/restapi/vc/boards/id/Lithium_Ideas/message_statuses/available

 

for find all ideas with key "Duplicate", via

http://community.lithium.com/restapi/vc/boards/id/Lithium_Ideas/threads/for/message_statuses/key/Duplicate/recent

 

as you already have your own search box, my suggest was to

  1. write an endpoint which 
    • get the input query from http request parameter
    • use search/messages to find out the message list with the input query
    • iterate the list and remove those messages with status=duplicate
    • output the result as a JSON
  2. write your own "search before post" following this sample code
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iftomkins
Maven
12 years ago

Thank you! Yes, I was referring to ideas, but also to regular topics. To exclude regular topics, I suppose we would start adding "duplicate" tags to each regular topic that is closed for being a duplicate.

 

I've worked with instant search before, based on that very same script. That's a good suggestion, but I was hoping there would be a more simple way to modify the search action of the default component to exclude closed/duplicate topics. We already have the component build and polished, so I'd prefer to avoid rebuilding it, but will consider that if necessary.

 

Very helpful infos!

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