Searching for a word or string in a non-public weblog does not find anything. Once you set the log public Search works. Is there a way to get the search feature working in a non-public log?

i'd rate this as a bug. here's my solution:

it's in the database query in function searchSites (query, sid) in root/objectFunctions.js: a site is only included in the search if it's public. as long as the sid is given, it would be no problem to leave that out, because unauthorized users will be bounced out anyway when using the search feature of an individual antville site. (by the way, there's a bug in there as well, see below.) but if no sid is given and we're searching through all sites (a feature that could be added to the root page at www.antville.org), there's no bouncer and we want to exclude private sites. a quick hack would be to leave that where clause out, but only if a sid is given. i suggest implementing this until someone has a better idea. in the current antville, it wouldn't be a security threat and the users would be happy, because they can search their private sites.

the other bug: function isNotPublic(usr) in site/securityFunctions.js doesn't seem to work properly. because if usr is a user object, it's supposed to yield true in this line:

if (usr && usr.isSysAdmin())

however, it's false! consequently, the site is always determined to be public and the redirect to the login in search.hac is never called.

can anyone reproduce this? does anyone know why the user object equals false?

anyway, that's not a problem, because we can easily replace usr with (usr != null), which works as intended. this means, if the site is not public and you're neither logged in as a SysAdmin, nor as a member, you're bounced to the login page.

disclaimer: i don't have the most recent version of antville installed over here.

searching in private weblogs should be working now. (part of the code explicitely excluded any private weblog from being searched.)