Helper Child Nodes: User-Friendly Search Results and Preventing Full Node Views

The target audience for this article is developers with advanced knowledge of eZ Publish.

There are two ways to associate helper nodes with a master node:

• Via an explicit relation: using object relation or object relations attributes, using general object relations or <embed> tags in an XML text block.
• Using the tree structure: putting helper nodes below the master node.

In this article, we discuss the latter type, where helper nodes are children of a master node. If you are familiar with helper nodes and the issues involved, you can skip directly to the section named "Indexing child nodes in their master nodes" on the Search results page. Otherwise, we recommend that you read this article in the order that it is written.

Extensions used

The extensions as they are introduced in this article are for eZ Publish 3 releases and can be downloaded from http://www.seeds.no/eng/ez-publish/downloads. However, the same extensions for eZ Publish 4 can be downloaded from the same location.