Configuring DXP Content Management to supply metadata for your binary content

Create a folder for all your search-related assets if you don’t already have one. At the root of your site create a new folder asset named DXP Search Integration.

Create an asset listing asset underneath this folder named Document DXP Search Metadata Paginated. Right-click on the folder in your asset map where you would like to create the listing then select Create new…​  Pages  Asset Listing from the context menu.

Configure the Asset selection settings.

Configure the Asset locations settings.

Leave the Additional filtering options and Asset exclusions on their default settings.

Configure the List formatting settings.

Click the Save button to save your asset listing configuration.

Clone the asset listing as a child named output.

Right-click on the Page Contents child asset and edit the Content. Click the Edit button to edit the contents.

Switch to Raw mode and remove the HTML formatting, updating the asset content to %asset_listing%. Click the Save button to save your changes.

Right-click on the Page Contents (No Results) child asset and edit the Content. Click the Edit button to edit the contents.

Switch to Raw mode and remove everything, leaving an empty field. Click the Save button to save your changes.

Right-click on the Type Formats  Default Format child asset and edit the Content. Click the Edit button to edit the contents.

Switch to Raw mode and update the field to contain the external metadata entries. The format of the content should be the %asset_url% followed by each of the metadata fields you wish to expose.

METADATA_CLASS:"KW_ASSET^CLEAN_STRING"

%asset_url% t:"%asset_name^replace:":\"^replace:(\s): ^replace:;: |% matrixTitle:"%asset_attribute_title^replace:":\"^replace:(\s): ^replace:;: |% d:"%asset_file_updated^date_format:Y-m-d%" (1)
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Create a design asset for plain text and edit the parse file to contain only the following:

<MySource_PRINT id_name="__global__" var="content_type" content_type="text/plain" /> (1)
<MySource_AREA id_name="body" design_area="body" />

Use this design with the Document DXP Search Metadata Paginated - select Settings  Design from the context menu for the asset, and enter the asset ID of the plain text design asset you created above into the Override Design field under the System Defined Frontend Design heading.

Create a paint layout for raw contents only and configure the default format to:

%asset_contents%

Use this paint layout with the Document DXP Search Metadata Paginated - select Settings  Paint Layouts from the context menu for the asset, and enter the asset ID of the contents only paint layout you created above into the Override Paint Layout field under the Effective Paint Layouts heading.

Right-click on the Page Contents child asset and edit the Content. Click the Edit button to edit the contents.

Switch to Raw mode and update the asset content to the following, the save your changes.

<script runat="server">
    const totalPages = %total_pages%;
    const assetListingUrl = "%globals_asset_url:OUTPUT-LISTING-ID%?result_OUTPUT-LISTING-ID_result_page="; (1)
    for (let i = 1; i <= totalPages; i++) {
        print(assetListingUrl+i+"\n");
    }
</script>

Right-click on the Page Contents (No Results) child asset and edit the Content. Click the Edit button to edit the contents.

Switch to Raw mode and remove everything, leaving an empty field. Click the Save button to save your changes.

Right-click on the Type Formats  Default Format child asset and edit the Content. Click the Edit button to edit the contents. Remove everything, leaving an empty field. Click the Save button to save your changes.

Ensure that access to these listings are disallowed in robots.txt. For the URLs configured above you would add the following to your robots.txt:

Disallow: /dxp-search-integration/

Switch to the administration dashboard for your DXP search and click on the Plugins item in the left hand navigation panel.

Locate the Fetch external metadata from URL plugin and click on the tile.

On the Location step, select the data source that has been configured to index your DXP Content Management website then click the Continue button.

On the Configuration keys step set the following, then click the Proceed button.