Hi Peter,

In general it's a best practice to refer all DITA resources in your DITA Map, including topics which only contain reusable content.

For such topics one would usually set this processing-role attribute on the topicref:

<topicref href="reusables.dita" processing-role="resource-only"/>
A resource only topic automatically does not appear in the TOC and should also not be indexed by our WebHelp search engine. So in a way this would be the equivalent of setting the TOC=no and Search=no attributes.

Regards,

Radu

Radu Coravu
Oxygen XML Editor

On 1/15/24 16:17, Peter Shauger wrote:
I may have answered my own question...
 
I'm not sure if this is the proper solution, or just one of the possible solutions, but here's what I ended up doing:
 
- I created a new map
- added all my conref source files to that map
- set map properties TOC=no and Search=no
 
That worked!
 
 


From: Peter <pshauger@tomsawyer.com>
To: oxygen-user <oxygen-user@oxygenxml.com>
Date: Monday, 15 January 2024 12:30 AM EST
Subject: [oXygen-user] excluding conref source files from search results

Hi,
 
How do I make it, so that a conref source file does not appear in search results?
 
This file is not otherwise in the TOC. It is ONLY used as conref source.
 
 
Peter Shauger
Senior Technical Writer



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