Yes it is. You can do an and search on the topic parent and other content you are searching for, with regex on.

For example:

%SEARCH{ "MyDog*;%TOPIC%" web="%WEB%" topic="MyDog*" type="regex" }%

So to break that down,

• web=%WEB% limits the search to only the web we're in.
• topic= MyDog* limits the search to only topics whose title is MyDogblahblah, where blah blah is any character or characters after MyDog.
• Type=regex allows us to search with regular expressions which is what let's us pick up MyDog'sTail as well as MyDog'sPaw. More specifically, searching with regex=on allows us to use regular expressions such as the * in this example.
• Now the best part MyDog* ; %TOPIC%. The semi-colon is the magic that produces the AND. This tells the search to search for MyDog* AND %TOPIC%. Searching for MyDog* (remember the astrick in the search means any character or characters) AND %TOPIC% returns MyDog topics that are associated with the topic the search is being performed from.

So given the following topic relationships:

MyPets
MyDog

MyDog'sPaw

MyDogAteMyCat

If we embed this search in the MyDog topic, MyDog and MyDog's Paw would be returned. MyDogAteMyCat would not be returned because the parent is MyCat which is not a child of the topic MyDog. (Remember we kept our search to only the topic MyDog by adding ; %TOPIC% in our query string.

• Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = CynthiaManuel