Excluding certain topics from search results using the search attribute method

The WebHelp Search engine does not index DITA topics that have the @search attribute set to no.

To exclude DITA topics from WebHelp search results using this attribute, follow these steps:

  1. Edit the DITA map and for any topicref that you want to exclude from search results, set the search attribute to no.
    For example:
    <topicref href="../topics/internal-topic1.dita" search="no"/>
  2. Save your changes to the DITA map.
  3. Run your WebHelp system transformation.