[5.0] Smart Search: Allow to hide archived content

[Hackwar]

Pull Request for Issue #41339.

Summary of Changes

The old com_search had an option to search both published and archived content. This PR adds that option to the core Smart Search plugins as well. By default archived content is searched, since that was the behavior until now.

Testing Instructions

1. Install the testing sampledata
2. Set an article to archived
3. Search for that article in smart search
4. Switch the option in the article finder plugin to no.
5. Edit the archived article and change something small in it.
6. Search for the article again
7. Change the state of the article back to published.
8. Search for the article again.

Actual result BEFORE applying this Pull Request

The article is always returned as a search result.

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

When at step 6, the article does not show up in the search results anymore.
At step 8, the article does show up again.

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[HLeithner]

Nice feature, allowing to not index any article would be nice too.

[Hackwar]

If you don't want to index any articles at all, you can just switch off the content finder plugin. 😉 But I understand that you want an option to not index a content item in the first place. Will see what I can do.

[HLeithner]

yeah, my wording wasn't specific enough :-(

[HLeithner]

documentation is needed here for 3rd party developer and also for users....

[brianteeman]

It's not really a new feature it's more a migration of a long term feature from search to finder

[HLeithner]

thanks

[1inkin]

Is this feature still planned for inclusion in the Joomla distribution?

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[alikon]

it is already in 5

[1inkin]

I found the switch in the plugin settings. Thank you. very useful feature. It would be nice to add a switch to the article parameters to disable indexing of some articles.

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