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Recent update: 2008-3-21

Get the most popular topics and the most active users in a wiki library

243 byte By Commonman at 2008-3-7
Does any one know how to get the most active users and the most popular topics from a wiki lbrary. Active users are the users who access the site the most,How can we get them.Is there a sharepoint control which helps to get it.

Shared service1 for search settings showing access denied in central administration

440 byte By Commonman at 2008-3-6
Hi, I have got administrator privilege for the sharepoint server 2007 but when i try to access the shared service1 for search settings it gives me the error as 'access denied '. I checked every possbile way. I even reset my password on the IIS/application pool as an administrator on which ...

WSS3 cannot be crawled

633 byte By JasonChan at 2008-3-5
I'm getting this error on the server of WSS 3.0 The start address <sts3://ebs-sharepoint/contentdbid={d901caff-7863-40aa-8460-c3ef9132cb89}> cannot be crawled. Context: Application 'Search index file on the search server', Catalog 'Search' Details: Access is denied. Check that the ...

MOSS2007 standalone no search results

1833 byte By MikeV1 at 2008-3-3
Hi I have done a standalone install and added a couple of users, a couple of sites and a couple of documents. Searcing for any of these returns nothing. The default content access account (NT authority\local service) has Full read permissions to all zones under 'Policy for web application' in ...

Social Distance and Problems Viewing Search Results

1479 byte By ssis_new_user at 2008-3-1
Hi, I'm having trouble viewing the full result set of a People search in Sharepoint 2007. This only happens when the search results are viewed by 'social distance' and only for certain network logons. When I view the results by 'relvance' the whole search result is visible. Specifically ...

SharePoint Index Files

218 byte By SholaSalako at 2008-2-28
Hello All: Does anyone know of a tool for manually searching SharePoint index files (SPS.EDB)? I need to analyze some index files for integrity and consistency. Thanks in advance! Shola.

Social Distance and Problems Viewing Search Results

1179 byte By ssis_new_user at 2008-2-27
Hi, I'm having trouble viewing the full result set of a People search in Sharepoint 2007. This only happens when the search results are viewed by 'social distance' and only for certain network logons. When I view the results by 'relvance' the whole search result is visible. Specifically ...

Social Distance in Search Results

1182 byte By ssis_new_user at 2008-2-26
Hi, I'm having trouble viewing the full result set of a People search in Sharepoint 2007. This only happens when the search results are viewed by 'social distance' and only for certain network logons. When I view the results by 'relvance' the whole search result is visible. Specifically ...

People search on user profiles imported from AD

449 byte By daniel.youlussusskind at 2008-2-25
Hi I configured a full Active Directory import in the Shared Services Administration->User profiles and properties and I was able to get all the AD users imported into the server, however, whenever I search for people, I don't get any results back. Assuming there's a relationship bewtween ...

Property filter syntax and PDF documents

827 byte By JoelTriemstra at 2008-2-24
I have a site column of type Yes/No defined (TestYesNo). I have mapped it to a managed property. I have added the column to a document library. I have uploaded a Word document and a PDF to a document library, and set TestYesNo equal to Yes for both. When I do a search for TestYesNo:1, the ...

Search results customisation

375 byte By Ir_Vin at 2008-2-23
Hi, My search founds match in the text of a document and returns a link directly to this document. Therefore users can download them immediately and skip reading all important properties. I would like search return link not to the document but to display form for this document. Could you advise ...

Adaptive Crawling

1134 byte By lilica_001 at 2008-2-22
Hi, Would like to get more information on the algorithm Adaptive Crawling that is used in the system of search of SharePoint Exists some archive technician who bases this algorithm? Lilica ...

Search is ignoring user's permissions

1365 byte By cchorfi at 2008-2-22
Hi, I'm trying to perform a search in a web application according to the code below: public static DataSet ObtemDocumentos(string palavraChave, ref string username) { //The XML string containing the query request information //for the Web service string qXMLString = "<QueryPacket ...

Indexing MDI files from Office Document Imaging

528 byte By RolfHa at 2008-2-21
Hi, Microsoft document imaging is a nice tool to get paper scans into sharpoint. In the 2003 version MDI files, the output of MicrosoftDocumentImaging, have been included in search results by an default iFilter scanning the meta data which has been added by the ocr part of MDI. It seems that ...

OCR iFilter and SP2007

734 byte By DJLordee at 2008-2-20
Hi, Since the TIFF iFilter with OCR capabilities in SharePoint 2007 is not available, how could we proceed to achieve the same result? I've heard that the reason was related to the performance but even then, it does not remove the need of this feature. More and more, organizations proceed to ...

Search Center Site Title

282 byte By mabster at 2008-2-19
Hi gang, Changing the title of a site based on the "Search Center" template doesn't change its title in the browser window (ie. the <title> tag). How can I do this? Do I change it using SharePoint Designer or something? Cheers, Matt

Adaptive Crawling

1151 byte By lilica_001 at 2008-2-18
Hi, Would like to get more information on the algorithm Adaptive Crawling that is used in the system of search of SharePoint Exists some archive technician who bases this algorithm? Lilica ...

Search is ignoring user's permissions

1357 byte By cchorfi at 2008-2-17
Hi,I'm trying to perform a search in a web application according to the code below: public static DataSet ObtemDocumentos(string palavraChave, ref string username) { //The XML string containing the query request information //for the Web service string qXMLString = "<QueryPacket ...

Search Syntax / Advanced search options

277 byte By Wolfgang_Arztmann at 2008-2-16
Hi, Is there a description / or whitepaper of the MOSS2007 "Search Syntax" available. The only thing we found yet comes from the SDK chm file. We are looking for Information we can give our users to help them get better results.. thx Wolfgang

Result types in advanced search

653 byte By FrederikVantroys at 2008-2-15
Hello all,When you do an advanced search you have a choice between 4 result types (word, excel, presentation, documents and all), and depending on what you choose you have different properties you can choose in. I found some nice articles on how to add custom properties to the result types, but ...

pdf search on MOSS 2007

1133 byte By SharepointBUZZ at 2008-2-15
I have followed the instructions for setting up the pdf ifilter for search however none of the pdf files that I upload to the site and the pdf files that I have added to a network share come up in the searchi have uploaded pdf files from different sources... other docs work just fine. have done ...

Forms Based Authentication - unable to search file shares

1896 byte By --J-- at 2008-2-15
Here is the setup:The primary application uses theAspNetActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider for Forms-BasedAuthentication.This application is extended on a different port. The extendedapplication has the default Windows based Authentication and isextended on a different zone. The windows ...

UPDATED 3/19 - Re: Search from main page requires login?

703 byte By DavidInArk at 2008-2-15
1. On my site ( http://ardl.k12.ar.us), if a visitor wants to search using the box at the top of the page (This Site: DL Portal), the system prompts for a login to see the results. It was not always this way, and I have no idea what might have changed. Where do I check permissions on the results ...

UPDATED 3/19 - Re: Search from main page requires login?

702 byte By DavidInArk at 2008-2-15
1. On my site ( http://ardl.k12.ar.us), if a visitor wants to search using the box at the top of the page (This Site: DL Portal), the system prompts for a login to see the results. It was not always this way, and I have no idea what might have changed. Where do I check permissions on the results ...

Could not create a database session

902 byte By woef at 2008-2-14
Hello,When I do a search in a sharepoint site, I get the following error :Your search cannot be completed because of a service error. Try your search again or contact your administrator for more information.When I check the app. log, the following is mentioned :Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: ...

Search Center Site Title

278 byte By mabster at 2008-2-14
Hi gang, Changing the title of a site based on the "Search Center" template doesn't change its title in the browser window (ie. the <title> tag). How can I do this? Do I change it using SharePoint Designer or something? Cheers, Matt

Search not indexing replies in the forum

412 byte By xavito at 2008-2-13
I have a sharepoint search installed in a site, and I need to be able to search through the forums, but it can’t look through the replies in each thread unless I modify the main view so that it shows all the replies which is not acceptable. My point is, it can’t access for example the flat ...

Search from main page requires login?

711 byte By DavidInArk at 2008-2-13
1. On my site ( http://ardl.k12.ar.us), if a visitor wants to search using the box at the top of the page (This Site: DL Portal), the system prompts for a login to see the results. It was not always this way, and I have no idea what might have changed. Where do I check permissions on the results ...

People results - Getting it to display mobile number.

2586 byte By DavidFurber at 2008-2-12
Hi, I have setup a MOSS2007 Intranet.When doing a people search the details are by default are presented in the format of: Photo <Title> – <Full Name> - <office phone number> - <office location> I want the persons mobiles (or Cell) number to be displayed on the results ...

Search results customisation

378 byte By Ir_Vin at 2008-2-11
Hi,My search founds match in the text of a document and returns a link directly to this document. Therefore users can download them immediately and skip reading all important properties.I would like search return link not to the document but to display form for this document. Could you advise ...

MCMS 2002 site wide search

197 byte By JeyRam at 2008-2-10
Hi All, Is there any tool or any one having idea about how to develope the search engine for the MCMS 2002 site wide search operation. Thanks in advance. Regards, Jey

People results - Getting it to display mobile number.

2563 byte By DavidFurber at 2008-2-10
Hi,I have setup a MOSS2007 Intranet.When doing a people search the details are by default are presented in the format of:Photo <Title> – <Full Name> - <office phone number> - <office location>I want the persons mobiles (or Cell) number to be displayed on the results ...

Searching User through Group

398 byte By BilalLodhi at 2008-2-8
Hi, I want do Search all People that belong to Particular Group in Active Directory. Can any tell me what are the steps that are required to perform this ...

People search on user profiles imported from AD

445 byte By daniel.youlussusskind at 2008-2-8
HiI configured a full Active Directory import in the Shared Services Administration->User profiles and properties and I was able to get all the AD users imported into the server, however, whenever I search for people, I don't get any results back.Assuming there's a relationship bewtween ...

Can't search within PDF files

388 byte By EWANAME at 2008-2-7
I've installed the Adobe Ifilter 6.0 and can now search to list posted pdf files in multiple sites by querying the pdf name. I can search content within Word files, but still cannot search content within these pdf files. Is there something else I need to configure to see content within these ...

Crawled Properties from Business Data not getting populated

571 byte By Michael23 at 2008-2-7
I follow the AdventureWorks Business Data Application Sample Walkthrough.So I have the Products Business Data Application on my SSP.I can successfully test the business application with the Business Data List web part.I can successfully crawl the business application without errors.But the ...

Search Error

1413 byte By GlennMeyer at 2008-2-7
When I search from my portal I get the following error message:Your search cannot be completed because of a service error.I've just installed and configure MOSS. Search indexing is working fine and the indexes are propagating to my query server just fine. Below is event log info:Event Source: ...

Reassigning new application server the Office SharePoint Search Service

380 byte By MeToo1 at 2008-2-7
Can’t seem to find out how to reassign the Search service to a different application server. From the Farm Topology we part I can select the new app server but all options are grayed out. Any help would be ...

How to search within scanned pdf document.

118 byte By babal at 2008-2-7
I have a scanned pdf document. I want to search within this document and copy the matched content to list in moss.

External Site Search problem

871 byte By IstvanSimon at 2008-2-6
When I'm trying to set up a search for external web site for MOSS 2007 . For example http://news.com.com/. I'm getting an Error and crawling is not happening.The Error is the following:Could not Connect to the server. Please make sure the server is accessible.I'm doing the following:1. ...

Search Web Service not working in SharePoint 2007

3738 byte By JohnDeBritto at 2008-2-6
Hi, I am trying to access the web service provided by sharepoint 2007 and use it in the ASP.NET application. I want to use the following Web Service. http://localhost/_vti_bin/search.asmx http://localhost/_vti_bin/spsearch.asmxAnd while executing the code, following error is being thrown.Server ...

Web Search Tab?

246 byte By mabster at 2008-2-5
Hi gang, Is it possible to add a tab to the search box (currently it has "All Sites" and "People") which performs a web search using, say, Live Search or Google? Is this documented anywhere? Cheers, Matt

WSS3 cannot be crawled

625 byte By JasonChan at 2008-2-5
I'm getting this error on the server of WSS 3.0The start address <sts3://ebs-sharepoint/contentdbid={d901caff-7863-40aa-8460-c3ef9132cb89}> cannot be crawled.Context: Application 'Search index file on the search server', Catalog 'Search'Details: Access is denied. Check that the ...

Excluding a URL with a question mark in it by creating a crawl rule

372 byte By Michael23 at 2008-2-4
in MOSS 2007, how can I exclude a URL with a question mark in it by creating a crawl rule?it just doesn't seem to work if I create a exclude rule with ...

Filter search results in MOSS 2007 depending on the signed in user.

787 byte By Beche at 2008-2-4
Hello,I have a Sharepoint site where all the lists and libraries are going to be filtered depending on the user that's logged in (using a UserID identifier for each user and each list item having that same UserID as foreign key). I need to implement search capabilities on the site, however I ...

IndexingScheduleJobDefinition - Access is denied

1216 byte By homerc44 at 2008-2-4
I am getting errors with my indexing. This is a single server (basic) install of MOSS. Very little configuration has been done on the server and I am getting the following error posted to the Event Viewer every minute or so. --Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3Event ...

Filter search results in MOSS 2007 depending on the signed in user.

787 byte By Beche at 2008-2-4
Hello,I have a Sharepoint site where all the lists and libraries are going to be filtered depending on the user that's logged in (using a UserID identifier for each user and each list item having that same UserID as foreign key). I need to implement search capabilities on the site, however I ...

...this web site is not assigned to any indexing module

571 byte By Ravie14 at 2008-2-3
Hello colleagues,who knows what to do when I get this error when trying to search in WSS3? The Sharepoint Central Admin contains the Sharepoint Search Service with status: running, the search DB exists, but when I try searching, I get...this web site is not assigned to any indexing module...The ...

Detecting Dead Links while searching

219 byte By LanaNajm at 2008-2-3
I would be pleased to know if SharePoint detects Dead Links while crawling. Is this feature an out-of-the-box web part, is it an additional tool, or should i do it be done programmatically? Thanks in advance Lana

Excluding a URL with a question mark in it by creating a crawl rule

378 byte By Michael23 at 2008-2-2
in MOSS 2007, how can I exclude a URL with a question mark in it by creating a crawl rule?it just doesn't seem to work if I create a exclude rule with http://www.blah.com/page.asp?PageId=77 thanks. ...

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