[TYPO3] troubles with indexed search

[Surer Dink]

On 3/12/06, Axel Jindra <a.jindra at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >>>1) I set "startingpoint" in the indexed_search plugin, but the entire
> >>>site still gets searched.  how can I restrict the search to only a
> >>>subsection of the site?
> >>>2) I use RealURl and my page names have ampersend (&) character.
> >>>bottom of search results says: Path: /Test &amp; Me/About Us  - how
> >>>can I get it to say Test & Me instead?
> >>>3) All of my pages have a footer with text links, one of them is
> >>>"home".  when I search for "home" all of the pages come up.  how can I
> >>>exclude the page footers/menus from the search results?
> >>
> >>To limit your search engine to a specified range of your template you
> >>should inform it that you intend to do so. So you ought to put those
> >>markers <!--TYPO3SEARCH_begin--> and <!--TYPO3SEARCH_end--> around your
> >>desired content. It should work just fine then.
> >
> > Thanks!  1 of 3 solved!  Just two more to go...
>
> to solve no. 1 you may add
> plugin.tx_indexedsearch.search.rootPidList = pid(s) of your starting point
> to the setup of your template
>
> Axel.

I tried this, and it clearly has some effect (in particular, it causes
for no search results to be returned at all no matter what I search
for!).  Do you have any other ideas on how I can try to restrict
search to a certain area?