search filtering

Sorry if this question has been answered before. I'm using Sitefiity 4.2 and need to filter the search results based on the top level node of the site map tree. In other words, each top level node (page) represents a different department and users from one department are not interested in search results from another department. Can someone kick me in the right direction on how this can be accompished?

thanks in advance,
Dewayne

Hello Dewayne,

This can be done by creating a custom search pipe that will handle indexing for only one page node. As an example I can direct you to this blog post with a sample custom pipe for Sitefinity publishing system that is handling searching. Here is how to add new content type to search since indexing pages will index all pages that have a page option their content to be searched and your requirement is to search only specific pages.

Kind regards,
Stanislav Velikov
the Telerik team

Thank you very much! I will check these out.