[Zope] More search engine woes

[Nolan Darilek]

I'm not sure if this is a PTK-specific issue, but I'm starting to
believe that it isn't. So I thought I'd post here with my problem and
see if someone could possibly point me in the right direction. I also
unsubscribed from the list recently, so please CC me with any replies.

I'm using Zope on a student organization website which I am
developing. Ideally I'd like for this to be an extremely popular
community-driven site, so a working search engine would be a
necessity. Additionally, I'd like to exclude unapproved items from
searches so that only moderated content is placed in the queue of news
items and ad banners which are being indexed. I'm also writing
site-specific documentation which is intended to guide members through
the process of creating news items, ad banners, etc., and I'd very
much like to have this content indexed as well.

Today I noticed that my search engine failed to produce any
results. Searching for the letter 'e' didn't even reveal anything,
which is unusual since E is the most common letter in the English
language AFAIK. So I tried digging into the ZCatalog documentation,
and poking around in the interface has confused me.

I created a help folder, and added an advertising document which
briefly explains how to create news items and such. Yet, I can't seem
to get this item to appear in the ZCatalog. In fact, the only item
which does appear is /Members/nolan, my PTK account page. Clicking on
the "find" tab and checking the "all items" checkbox seems to imply
that all items of every type on my site will be cataloged, but doing
this always results in only one page being listed in the catalog. Is
there some reason why the contents of help/ aren't being listed?

Thanks a bunch. If I can provide any additional information then I
will be glad to do so.