Snippets and indexing

[MarinaMichaels]

I've been implementing snippets for the two months and love them. Way cool!

But now I am about to start converting to snippets some tables that apply to more than one set of topics (currently, I have multiple TOC entries pointing to the same table topic/file). However, the index entries for each parameter are in the table cell for that parameter. I did this instead of placing the index entries at the top of the table because

(a) for the longer tables, I want people to click on the index link and be taken directly to the row with that parameter's information in it;
(b) when I was creating the index entries, it was much easier to see which parameters I had indexed already (because I could see the entries right there next to the parameter name); and
(c) some of the table rows are hidden for now until we implement those parameters; it was easier to just apply a condition to an entire row (including the index entries for that row) than try to apply conditions within a set of clustered index entries.

Given that I am not going to re-do over a thousand index entries, is there a way to mark an entire topic so that the index entries in that topic aren't looked at?

Edit: Marking the topic as not searchable does not prevent the index entries from being present in the index.

Thanks!

[i-tietz]

Tried snippet conditions?
You could apply conditions to the keywords in the table and exclude that condition/those conditions for every single topic separately.
You might even be able to do a find & replace with regular expressions to apply the conditions to the keywords.

[MarinaMichaels]

This is a belated response. Using conditions is an excellent suggestion, but when you have thousands of keywords, the amount of time required to individually mark every single keyword with a condition is prohibitive. Though as you suggested, a regex might work. If/when we get more budget for this project, I might try that.