How to make an Asset (PDF) unsearchable in the DAM

[DianneE]

Hi, Adobe Experience Experts! 

My team and I are looking to make a PDF non-searchable in the DAM. While we do know we have specific folders set up not to crawl. We were wondering if there was another way to make an asset (in this instance a PDF) unsearchable in any folder structure we want. Or are we locked down to using those specific folders or can we make adjustments in the Properties once the PDF is loaded in the DAM. 

Current version of AEM is 6.5.

Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions. 

Dianne E.

[cwalter · Accepted solution]

This might be achieved by setting the proper ACLs to hide certain assets(-folders) from a specific usergroup.

[Shiv_Prakash_Patel]

Hi @DianneE ,

You may achieve this by setting a exclusion pattern in excludepaths predicate property in the Asset Admin Search Rail - http://localhost:4502/libs/cq/core/content/tools/customsearch/searchfacetformlister.html

Pattern for excluding learning folder (include your pattern in or condition) as : (.*)?(jcr:content|rep:policy)(/.*)?|(/content/dam/learning)(/.*)?

Similarly, you can also try to exclude only pdf from the search.

Please check out asset search rail facets here - https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-65/assets/administer/search-facets.html 

Hope this could help you!!!

Regards,

Shiv