Question

I am currently implementing a public web with some private pages that can only be accessed by certain groups.

I have spoken to our resident expert who says it is not possible to exclude these private pages from a search? As it will search all pages within the web and return hits even if they can not be viewed by that person. As far as the design is concerned these private pages do not have to be found in the search at all, the authorised persons will know what they are trying to access.

Can someone deny/confirm this? If it is possible to exclude the search pages, can you inform me?

Cheers,

Peter

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-- PeterKeaney - 21 Dec 2004

Answer

On further investigation, looks like it will be easier to just implement 2 webs, one public one private. However if anyone has anything else to add, feel free

-- PeterKeaney - 21 Dec 2004

TWiki searches protected view topics but returns a "view access denied" (or the like) if the person has no access instead of the summary.

If needed, you could add a excludetopic parameter to search. See TWikiSearch.

Nevertheless, as you discovered, it is better to access view per web. This is easier to maintain.

-- PeterThoeny - 22 Dec 2004