I have always created a SearchableTextWeighted method and corresponding index. Important textual metadata is printed multiple times, with body text printed once. It is a crude way to combine into a single buffer multiple fields and weight some fields heavier than others (by repeating the field values). You could, using this mechanism take a news story lead and headlines and print them multiple times, with the body of a story being printed once, which makes searches weight those fields more for purposes of relevancy. This is a pretty decent hack, but is a hack nonetheless. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Chris Muldrow [mailto:cmuldrow@fredericksburg.com] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 6:44 AM To: Zope Subject: [Zope] Yet another Zcatalog question--PrincipiaSearchSource Right now we've got our main Catalog storing only information about a Zclass, and it's only got one ZCTextindex--on PrincipiaSearchSource. I'd like people to be able to search the title AND the PrincipiaSearchSource at the same time--in other words, have both indexed. Is there a way to index both in the same ZCTextIndex so I don't have to keep two text indexes and combine searches into both? I'm thinking of trying to index some sort of method inside the Zclass that combines the two, but I can't seem to figure out what that method should look like--how do I say "concatenate title and data into a single piece of data that can be indexed"? And now to complicate things even more... Say I want to mix it up a bit and include pictures in my search. Our pictures have a property called Cutline that would need to be indexed. Could we trick the Catalog into also indexing Cutline in the same TextIndex? Or am I just talking crazy now? Thanks--Chris _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )