Question

I am trying to exclude the parent topic from my search. I have tried putting the META{"parent"} in my excludetopic and $parent, but they don't seem to work. Can this ben done?

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-- GlennHart - 17 Apr 2008

Answer

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Hm, have created an example set in the Sandbox web.

• ExcludeParentInSearch demonstrate the use of
• GetParentForExclusion

By using type="query" in TWiki 4.2 this would be a lot more transparent I guess.

-- FranzJosefGigler - 17 Apr 2008

if you want to exclude just the parent of the topic you are searching from, add excludetopic="%META{ "parent" dontrecurse="on" nowebhome="on" format="$topic" }%" to your SEARCH.

-- PeterThoeny - 17 Apr 2008

Thanks for your help. Peter, that was was nice and neat.

-- GlennHart - 18 Apr 2008

-- GlennHart - 18 Apr 2008