Displaying Content From Modular Pages

[LukeAskew]

More of a question - the content from my site is mostly in modular pages. Searching matches the appropriate parent page, but the content is empty because the parent's content is non-existent.

I was able to work around this by commenting out this block so that modular pages are included in the results.

I modified my search result loop to display the parent page name but the modular page content.

Is there a better way to include the modular page's content in search results?

[flaviocopes]

It should search inside the modular content, but the page shown in the search should be the parent page, as a modular page "part" is not really a page, just a portion of it.

[LukeAskew]

Right, but the modular page actually contains the content, so if I want to display a meaningful search result, I need that content in the page model.

[mikegcox]

I cannot get SimpleSearch to give results on Modular pages at all. I tried the mod by Luke but that did nothing either. I want to be able to search the entire site. Is there a setting I am missing?

enabled: true
built_in_css: false
display_button: true
min_query_length: 3
route: /search
template: simplesearch_results
filters:
filter_combinator: or
ignore_accented_characters: true
order:
  by: date
  dir: desc

[mikegcox]

My workaround in case someone is looking for an idea. I created a series of pages with duplicate content using just the default template. I added a button to the default.html.twig template and a corresponding text field in the default.yaml blueprint. Each page that I created now links to the content where I actually want the visitor to go. Each page has a "robots" - "noindex" metatag so that my duplicate content is not found by google. I then modified my simplesearch_item.html.twig to set my href to:

{% if page.header.button %}{{ base_url }}{{ page.header.button }}{% else %}{{ page.url }}{% endif %}

Now the user finds the page I want them to find and never sees the duplicate pages. They are just for index words.

Kind of a long process, but it only took an hour and it is perfect for the end user.