Preparing an MCMS Website for Search with SharePoint - Creating a New Search Scope (Page 4 of 4 ) While SharePoint is indexing our site, we should go ahead and create a search scope. - Open the General Content Settings and Indexing Status page by browsing to your portal and clicking the Site Settings link in the upper right. Under the Search Settings and Indexed Content section, click the Configure search and indexing link. Then click the Manage search scopes link.
- On the Manage Search Scopes page, click the New Search Scope button. When prompted to create a new search scope, enter the following:
| Field | Value | | Name: | TropicalGreen.net (SearchSetup.exe) | | Topics and Areas: | Include no topic or area in this scope | | Content Source Groups: | Limit the scope to the following groups of content sources: CMSChannels |
- After clicking OK, SharePoint will take us back to the Manage Search Scopes page with our new scope.
- Let's get back to the search configuration page. Click the Site Settings link in the heading of the Manage Search Scopes page. Then click the Configure search and indexing link under the Search Settings and Indexed Content section.
- At this point, we should make sure everything is configured correctly. We've created a content source and added that source to a new site group. By now, SharePoint should have finished indexing our site (unless you added hundreds of postings to it). Look at the Non-portal content column. If you see errors, warnings, or zero documents indexed, examine the logsome errors might not be errors at all, others may indicate errors within the MCMS site itself.
One common error, The address could not be found, is usually caused by links to empty
channels that are not configured to use channel rendering scripts. Since we'd expect guests to receive this error when browsing the site, it's not surprising the SharePoint gatherer ran into the same problem. This is not a problem with the SharePoint index, but rather with the structure or of our site: channels that could be empty should have channel rendering scripts or be hidden from the navigation. - If there are no problems, we can test our index. Click the Home link in the portal navigation to get to the homepage. In the upper-right corner, select TropicalGreen.net (SearchSetup.exe) in the dropdown (the whole name may not appear due to design constraints on the width of the dropdown), enter ficus in the search box, and click the green arrow to execute the search. The search results should find the posting in the plant catalog.
Your search results may not match what is indicated in the image above as your postings
may have been modified recently.
We now have a SharePoint search scope created and indexing our Tropical Green site. While this search scope can be used within the portal to search our site, we will use it via the SPS Query Service Web Service from our MCMS site to provide search functionality to our users. Please check back next week for the continuation of this article. | DISCLAIMER: The content provided in this article is not warranted or guaranteed by Developer Shed, Inc. The content provided is intended for entertainment and/or educational purposes in order to introduce to the reader key ideas, concepts, and/or product reviews. As such it is incumbent upon the reader to employ real-world tactics for security and implementation of best practices. We are not liable for any negative consequences that may result from implementing any information covered in our articles or tutorials. If this is a hardware review, it is not recommended to open and/or modify your hardware. |
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