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January 21, 2025
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Is there a way to omit sections of a topic from search index?

  • January 21, 2025
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RH2022 

Is there a way to omit certain sections/parts of a topic from RH's search index?

I am looking to speed up my search times. With my current frameless output, I am clocking 10-15 seconds for the search results to appear.  I have already had my devops guys look into the gzip settings on our server - everything is as it should be. 

I have over 400 individual addon guides included in my web output.  Each guide contains database mapping tables and code samples.  Through testing, I have found that its the long tables and web response examples that I think are choking the search.   If i could prevent RH from indexing those tables, i think overall search performance would be much better.  

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    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    January 21, 2025

    @Jeff_Coatsworth is correct. It's a Topic Only option. It would be a useful feature though so why not add it?

     

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    davidk99046111
    davidk99046111Author
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    January 22, 2025

    thank you.  I added FR: https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/RH-12828

    Jeff_Coatsworth
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    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
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    January 21, 2025

    Oh, maybe you can - see https://community.adobe.com/t5/robohelp-discussions/excluding-a-topic-from-search/td-p/14190638 

    Jeff_Coatsworth
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    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
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    January 21, 2025

    I don't think there's any way to do that - the TOC has an option about hide from online {something}, but I don't think that's what you're looking for.

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