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When users use Search in my frameless help site, I want their seach to include the full text of the Word docs and PDFs I've uploaded to the assets/docs folder. But it doesn't appear to be happening. Help?
What am I doing wrong?
Regarding Peter's first point. New UI only includes files in the output if they are included in the Table of Contents, or if they are linked to from topics included in your output.
So if you link to the Word document from any of your topics, then the document should be included in your output automatically. It's worth double-checking to make sure they're there, though.
However, if you don't link to the Word doc from any topics, then you will need to include it in the table of contents. If yo
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Regarding Peter's first point. New UI only includes files in the output if they are included in the Table of Contents, or if they are linked to from topics included in your output.
So if you link to the Word document from any of your topics, then the document should be included in your output automatically. It's worth double-checking to make sure they're there, though.
However, if you don't link to the Word doc from any topics, then you will need to include it in the table of contents. If you don't want it to show up in the ToC, then you can set the "Hide in output" checkbox in the toc entry properties.
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The docs were NOT showing up in the output files. So I followed Amebr's advice and linked to them from existing pages, and now it works perfectly in Search. Thanks for the help!!