[Developers] Editing longer text fields.

[Faye Li]

Hi Arthur,

All properties of type /type/text are already being indexed for search. 
There's no need to copy the summary into the article if that's the only 
reason for doing so.

-- Faye


Arthur van Hoff wrote:
> Hi Faye,
>
> The summary is a non-html description of a broadcast that we can display
> in our environment (which does not support html). We have to copy it
> into the article so that it is indexed for search. 
>
> We've asked if it was possible to add an option to the schema which
> flags the summary for indexing. That way we would not have to put a copy
> in the article.
>
> Using a separate article of type text/plain is possible, but it adds a
> lot of complexity since we can't simply request the content using a MQL
> query.
>
> Have fun,
>
>     Arthur van Hoff
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: developers-bounces at freebase.com [mailto:developers-
>> bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Faye Li
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:26 PM
>> To: For discussions about MQL,Freebase API and apps built on Freebase
>> Subject: Re: [Developers] Editing longer text fields.
>>
>> Hi Arthur,
>>
>> A little off-topic as I'm trying to understand your data model and
>> see
>> if there's a better way to support that. At least for this topic, I
>> see
>> that the content of the Summary (/type/text) is identical to that of
>> the
>> Description (/common/topic/article). So my questions are:
>>
>> 1) What's the purpose of the Summary property, and how is it
>> different
>> from that of the topic article, if at all?
>> 2) If it tends to contain sentences instead of short phrases, would
>> it
>> serve your purpose better to set the expected type as
>> /common/topic/article if that can be handled well by the Freebase
>> app?
>>
>> Dan,
>> I recall that the idea of allowing/supporting multiple articles on a
>> topic came up last year. Was a definitive decision made on that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -- Faye
>>
>>
>> Dan Milbrath wrote:
>>     
>>> agreed. we'll try to address this in the next release or two.
>>> thanks.
>>>
>>> - Dan
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Arthur van Hoff" <AVH at zing.net>
>>> To: "For discussions about MQL, Freebase API and apps built on
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>> Freebase" <developers at freebase.com>
>>     
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:27:33 PM (GMT-0800)
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