Hi Christopher,

Looks like you are on the right track with the categories module. Since
the university is a CMS customer you should also have access to the
Search module. Set up a new database profile (you might need help from
system administration with that) that only indexes the knowledge base
directory and then use the <search-form> and related RXML tags to do the
searching.

/Anders

On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 15:23 -0800, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Hi. My department is doing a redesign of our Web site, which uses Roxen. 
> (The Roxen back-end system is set up and maintained by our university). 
> My department heads are looking to me and asking if it is possible to 
> create a Knowledge Base (a collection of organized and ideally 
> searchable articles) using only the tools Roxen provides.
> 
> With research (I'm no Roxen guru) I discovered it was possible to create 
> something like a KB using Roxen's category system, along with RXML that 
> manipulates and displays the nodes. But I'm wondering how far I can go 
> with that, especially regarding the "search" aspect. I'm thinking it 
> probably wouldn't be too difficult to create a search form, and then use 
> RXML to filter category and article nodes, but I'm not quite sure. This 
> wouldn't be able to search actual article content, I suppose - only 
> category and article names, which would not be quite as helpful. 
> Instantaneous search results would also be great, but I imagine that 
> would require AJAX and make this quite a bit more complicated.
> 
> Anyway, if anyone has any useful insight I would be appreciative.


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