Item2593: Documentation category listings are ugly, show naked macros

If the beginning of a topic contains only macro code, the summary text in a search result will show those naked macros.

Propose that as a part of the flattening process we strip out macros.

An obvious deficiency in this behaviour is in the System.AdminToolsCategory shown in the screenshot attached.

• Shows macro code in the summary text:
  

See also: Development.OptionToAvoidFlattenedSummaryInFormattedSearch

-- PaulHarvey - 06 Jan 2010

I am not sure the end result of the search summaries will be more intelligent by cutting out the naked macros. Maybe in some contexts it will be the other way around. What we do know is that it is absolutely not a good idea to try and expand these macros.

In System web context these summaries are doing more damage than good. We should really spend the time and give all those topics a one liner human intelligent description and show this instead. Either in a form or by hidden setting where we let the search list the meta content for this setting. The latter is my preferred as adding a form to all System web topics seems a bit of an overkill.

I am changing this to Enhancement because I do not see the current way a bug and the suggested alternative I am not sure is better.

-- KennethLavrsen - 06 Jan 2010

Changed the focus of this bug to address the specific usage of search summaries in the documentation categories as shipped in Foswiki.

-- PaulHarvey - 23 Jan 2010

No Action. These topics have been changed to crafted indexes and don't use search.

-- GeorgeClark - 07 Jan 2015