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Preventing Content Delivery from Indexing Content

As Content Delivery indexes your publication, there may be certain topics that you do not want indexed. This procedure describes how to exclude topics from being indexed.

Procedure

  1. If you are in a Content Delivery tool, click Home in the breadcrumb trail.
    The Content Delivery landing page appears.
  2. In the Administration Tools pane, click Manage Application.
    The Manage Application page appears.
  3. In the left pane, click Global Config.
  4. Ensure that the system has Libraries selected as search.ignore
  5. If you are connected to Content Manager, republish your publication.
  6. If you are not connected to Content Manager, you must add a METADATA file for each topic you want to exclude by replacing the [ID] with the @id attribute.

    Example:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <ishobject ishtype="ISHLibrary" ishref="[ID]"/>
    
    This would suppress a topic:
    
    <concept id="[ID]" ... > ... </concept>
    
    Once you run Upload and Prepare, the topics with an associated metadata file will not be indexed.