Link to top level does not work after search

[pwalczysko]

It is a good feature to be able to click on the top-left-corner Docs link which brings you to https://omero-guides.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

This feature works also when you are in a deeper level, such as https://omero-guides.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upload/docs/import-desktop-client.html

But if you navigate to such deeper level using Search, such as

• search for "import metadata"
• in the search results, select the first one, which is https://omero-guides.readthedocs.io/projects/upload/en/latest/metadata.html?highlight=metadata%20import
• then, on that page, try clicking onto the top-left "Docs" link -> observe that you land on https://omero-guides.readthedocs.io/projects/upload/en/latest/index.html - but expected would be to land on https://omero-guides.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• from now on, you are somehow "locked" inside the "Upload" section of the guides, and even a further search, e.g. for term ilastik brings no results
• the only option left is to use back button in your browser to get to the top level hierarchy

cc @jburel @sbesson

[sbesson]

Reading briefly, I think this is related to https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/subprojects.html#search i.e. the search indexes between the top-leve omero-guides project and the invidual sub-projects are shared. This explains why your search return two seemingly identical results. I don't know if it's possible to remove this so that only the search associated with the top-level project would be returned

[pwalczysko]

This explains why your search return two seemingly identical results.

Aha, got you, thanks a lot. Yes, the problem does not occur if I click on the second identical result.
Yes, it would be great if we could remove teh individual sub-project search results could be removed.

[jburel]

The same holds true for "Edit on GitHub", it does not work with sub-project

[astrojuanlu]

Hello! I'm Juan Luis, I work as Developer Advocate at Read the Docs and @joshmoore told me today about this issue and #23. Sorry it's being so painful to make it work - I will try to find some time to read what you have tried so far and see if we can help. In the meantime, if anybody wants to drop a summary or a list of problems (either here, in #23, or at https://readthedocs.org/support/), that would be great.

[pwalczysko]

Thank you @astrojuanlu - I think @jburel has an open issue (which I cannot find atm) and the best overview of the options and their limitations we are facing here.