Christopher on SharePoint Search - All Comments

re: Lotus Notes / Domino search connector - is there a market?

notorioustech — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:11:32 GMT

Vault connector will be released at the end of this month.

The notes connector is released in beta and will also be released at the end of the month.

Please email me at sales@sharepointworks.com for more information

re: Lotus Notes / Domino search connector - is there a market?

ShawnC — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:25:32 GMT

Oh god yes!!!! Please keep us updated...

re: Writing a custom protocol handler for SharePoint

Chris — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:23:09 GMT

I have implemented the sample and am able to properly index our data store, but I am needing to add a complex property (an array of strings) to the Sharepoint crawled metadata properties. You mentioned this as an advanced topic you would blog about later, did you ever get to blog about this? If not do you have any advice for augmenting the existing PROPVARIANT structure in the sample to allow an array of strings? Thanks!

re: How to make Search Results Actionable

Prashant — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:07:34 GMT

Hi notorious tech,

Great post.

Can you guide me on how to launch a custom exe, i can use launchinie whirly web tool, but how to pass the document to my exe.

Say i have a text file checked in to sharepoint and i want to open notepadpro on right click and launch the notepadpro which will open the document for which i had clicked.

Thanks

re: Deploying custom site templates that include SP Designer developed pages

Bart — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:51:35 GMT

I created a site template and deployed it almost 100 times. They get created automaticaly by an other program. Now I have an update for this template and want to apply it to all sites. Update consists of added filters on webparts on webpart pages. What is the best way to go about it?

re: Writing a custom protocol handler for SharePoint

notorioustech — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:46:17 GMT

Sorry, but those issues could be caused by any number of things. Would require a good deal of debuging to figure out.

If you are really in a pinch, schedule a demo with me (SHAREPONTWorks) and our universal crawler would work using your already defined sql in about an hour.

Plus do high end security mapping.

re: Writing a custom protocol handler for SharePoint

Bonar — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:15:49 GMT

Thanks.

Looks like we've run into a few issues moving off our test environment onto the production hardware. It isn't live yet, but in this new environment with multiple front end servers, and other incremental crawl jobs, it seems to die after a day or so of running successfully. In some instances it appears that Sharepoint de-registers our dlls and we have to reregister them with regasm. Have you seen this before or know of a workaround?

re: Writing a custom protocol handler for SharePoint

notorioustech — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:35:30 GMT

There are a few memory leaks to watch out for but the MSSearch crawler is pretty good about handling them and restarting gracefully. I wouldn't worry about it unless you are crawling > 3 million documents. The problem with the memory leaks is they can ruin an incremental which will trigger a full crawl. If you have defined your metadata properties in your code and they are not dynamic then you will have avoided at least one of them :).

re: Writing a custom protocol handler for SharePoint

Bonar — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:18:49 GMT

Hi,

We've built a custom protocol handler for a DMS that has customisations so we've needed to capture our own metadata etc. Saw your comments about the 'darn memory leak', and threading. We're keen to roll it out, but curious if we will have stability problems etc as per your comments. Are you planning on blogging on the memory leak or do you have any advice before we roll it out to users?

re: Lotus Notes / Domino search connector - is there a market?

notorioustech — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:44:32 GMT

Our progress is good, we are expecting to announce and demo it at the Semantec user conference in June.

If you would like to participate in our beta testing ( for a discounted purchase price) please email me your contact information at sales@sharepointworks.com

re: Lotus Notes / Domino search connector - is there a market?

cdanninger — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:32:29 GMT

Hi,

do you know if there is a SharePoint protocol handler for Semantec Enterprise Vault. What's your progress in implementing it.

Cheers

Christian

re: Lotus Notes / Domino search connector - is there a market?

Monica Isaac — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:29:41 GMT

A lot of enterprises here in Singapore are using Lotus notes as their enterpise groupware.

And now with Sharepoint in the limelight, we have been getting some inquiries if it is possible to index Lotus notes database and show this on Sharepoint 2007.

We have found a solution to support this requirement in meiyinglim.blogspot.com/.../using-sharepoint-2007-to-index-lotus.html. However, we are proposing Sharepoint to use 64-bit environment and it may pose as a problem if this dll from IBM can support it.

http://sharepointsearch.com/cs/blogs/notorioustech/archive/2007/07/06/resources-that-you-always-need-open-while-sharepointing.aspx

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:20:22 GMT

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re: How to make Search Results Actionable

Courtenay farquharson — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:18:48 GMT

Hi Christopher,

Great post on the search results. Ive experiemented with custom dataviews and the BDC etc and its all been very handy!

One thing you mentioned is having a property that says whether an item is readonly or not and provide a link to edit/check out. On the Search webpart the documents are opened in read-only form, whereas obviously when you go to the actual document library it can be opened in readonly or edit form.

How do i add this functionality to open the document in edit mode from the search web part?

your help is greatly appreciated!