Respect tx_news:Parameters "timeRestriction" and "timeRestrictionHigh"

[kbenyedder]

Dear team,

I would like to address the issue regarding the news-Indexer in Typo3 [11.5] Ke-Search Extension Version 5.0.2 with php 8.0.

There are two typoscript parameters called "timeRestriction" and "timeRestrictionHeigh" in the news Extension.

When these parameters are set, news articles in the future or past are supposed to be hidden.
However, it seems that the News Indexer does not take these parameters into consideration, resulting in these articles being displayed in the search results, which is not the desired behavior.

I kindly request your assistance in resolving this issue by ensuring that the News Indexer properly considers the timeRestriction parameters and hides the corresponding news articles in the search results.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Best regards,
Kamel Ben Yedder

[kbenyedder]

Please check hier
https://github.com/tpwd/ke_search/pull/181/commits

[kbenyedder]

@christianbltr could you please take care of this

[christianbltr]

@kbenyedder

Thank you for pointing to this issue and for the patch proposal.

But from my point of reading the TypoScript configuration for news would not be the best way to configure the behaviour of the indexer. For example it may be possible that you have a page where you want to show news records in a time restricted way (e.g. show only the news from the last 7 days) and on another page you want to show all news (like an archive). If ke_search would take the the time restriction into account it would falsely not index all news shown in the archive.

Also I think it would be in-transparent to use the news TypoScript setting to configure ke_search.

But if that is the desired behaviour in your project, you could easily use a hook for the news indexer to skip the news which don't match the time restriction.

I think such a feature could be useful for ke_search in general, but it should not take the configuration from TypoScript but from the indexer configuration, like the other options.

An idea for the implementation would be:

• Add Two date fields in the indexer configuration ("timeRestrictionLow", "timeRestrictionHigh")
• Adopt each indexer to check if the date of an indexed element falls into the time restriction
• Update documentation
• Update ke_search_hooks to show how to use this new option

I'm closing this and opened #184 instead. If you are interested in providing a patch in a more general way which does not use TypoScript for configuration please go ahead and I will merge it.