[OJS 2.4.8-1] Exclude (hidden) journals and their articles from global search

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In the global basic search I get results for articles which are actually hidden in OJS.
Is there a way to get only results for articles which are actually part of published journals?
With “published journals” I am thinking of journals for which the entry “Enable this journal to appear publicly on the site” (in the Journal Settings) is switched on.

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Hi @lcbossert,

Try applying the patch in this issue: Exclude content from disabled journals in search results · Issue #2272 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub

Please confirm if it works for you and I’ll add it to the ojs-stable-2_4_8 branch.

Note that this will exclude hidden journals from site-wide search results, but within the disabled journal, the search will work as expected.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Hi Alec,
I tried the patch (https://github.com/pkp/ojs/commit/433d514b67898f9ce79e9f9fd98d9fd1785ca010.patch), and can confirm, that it works as excepted.
Best,
Paflow

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Hi @paf,

Thanks – committed to ojs-stable-2_4_8 as well.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team