Taxonomy & Search option set - unwanted results

Question

Hi,
we have configured a search index on a repository :
/documents/Prikbord (this folder has subfolders) :
          /<user.id>/Images
          /<user.id>/Postings
In each 'postings' folder, an XML form item is created that has a property 'Notice Category' (the images have don't have this property!) to indicate whether the item is for our 'notice board' or our 'lost and found' corner. To visualize all postings by all users  to the end users, we have created an index & a query based taxonomy :
Create index 'NoticeBoard'
     Name : Notice Board
     ID : NoticeBoard
     Service : search & classification
     Items to be indexed : documents
     Data sources : /root/documents/Prikbord
     Taxonomies : LostandFound -> automatic classification     -> query based
               Prikbord     -> automatic classification     -> query based
     Permissions : everyone (read)
     Permission Owners : administrators
Next, we created a search options set :
Search Option Set :
          ID : NoticeBoardSearch
          Description : Standard UI parameter configuration for Notice Board search
          Initial Display of search options : x
          Close options after search x
          Enable Search Options x
          Enable Further Search x
          Default Search Scope : Folder
          Search Index : NoticeBoard
          Root folders for search : /taxonomies/NoticeBoard
          Enable selection of search method x
          Default Search method : linquistic
          Enable result parameters : x
          Enable Cascading search : x
          Enable sorting of search results : x
          default sorting mode : descending
          default property for sorting : cm_rnd_rankvalue
          allowed sort properties : cm_contentlength, cm_displayname, cm_modified, cm_modifiedby, cm_rnd_rankvalue
          enable items selection : x
          default search language selection : ALL
          additional search properties: Cernum_Notice_Category
          enable predifined properties : x
          Allowed prededfined properties : Cernum_Notice_Category, cm_contentlength, cm_displayname, cm_modified, cm_modifiedby, cm_rnd_rankvalue
The system creates for our taxonomy following structure :
/Taxonomies/NoticeBoard
               /Prikbord
                    /Documents to classify (hidden)
                    /Never to classify (hidden)
                ... sorted postings are at this level
               /LostandFound
                    /Documents to classify (hidden)
                    /Never to classify (hidden)
                ... sorted postings are at this level
Question :
We configured a Search iview, using the search options set defined above. However, the images used in the XML forms appear in the search results as separate entries, although they don't have the 'Notice Category type property' assigned.
How can this be? The search options set has /taxonomies/NoticeBoard assigned as the path to start in, the 'documents to classify' and the 'never to classify' folder are invisible.

Answer 1

Hi,
check the images for their metadata.
Select them and view the details.
They might have the attributes to, which causes that htey will be sorted as well.
On the other side, I understand that your search option set is reffering to the index "NoticeBoard" which indexes the content in /root/documents/Prikbord.
This is not the taxonomy folder!
That might be the reason you get all the hits of a search, because they are in that folder of "/root/documents/Prikbord". And if the images are in that folder too, it would be clear why they show up!
regards,
Darijo