[thelist] Re: Index Server Column Question

[William Kolean]

Adam,

You don't need to define a column to get the description meta tags - you
just need to make sure Index Server is configured to generate abstracts. On
Windows 2000, right-click on the Index Server catalog you're using and
select the Generation tab and make sure "Generate abstracts" is checked and
that a maximum size has been set. If it isn't, then make the changes and
then do a full scan (right-click on the directory and choose Full scan).
Then, on your search page, remove the objquery.defineColumn and add
"characterization" (without the quotes) to objQuery.Columns. You should then
be all set.

William

> Message: 37
> From: "Adam Slesinger" <badlanners at hotmail.com>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 09:22:15 -0500
> Subject: [thelist] Re: Index Server Column Question
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>
> Hi all.  Just bumping my question back in there to see if anyone has an
> idea.... Thanks!
>
> adam
>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I'm trying to work with a search engine that was already scripted.  It's
>> suing ASP and the Index Server on the host machine.  It works almost
>> prefectly and I understand the basic principles of it.  There's just one
>> element that is baffling me (and not working).
>>
>> In the returned page results, I'd like the description meta tag info
>> retreived, but I don't know if there is a defined Column name for that
> info.
>> The code looks like it's creating its own custom colum with the alias
>> "description" but rstemp(description) returns nothing, even if the page
> has
>> meta tags..
>>
>> I searched msdn for detailed information, but couldn't find anything to
> help
>> me.  Could anyone point me to some detailed reference material about this
>> subject, or help me figure out how to get the meta tags from the ixsso
>> query? Here's some code snipit
>>
>> Set objQuery = Server.CreateObject("ixsso.query")
>> Set objUtil = Server.CreateObject("ixsso.util")
>> objquery.DefineColumn "description (dbtype_wstr) =
>> d1b5d3f0-c0b3-11cf-9a92-00a0c908dbf1 description"
>> objQuery.Columns = "Directory, USN, FileName, VPath, DocTitle, HitCount,
>> path, description"
>> objQuery.SortBy = "HitCount [d]"
>> objQuery.MaxRecords = 500
>> objquery.LocaleID = objutil.ISOToLocaleID("EN-US")
>> Set rstemp = objQuery.CreateRecordSet("nonsequential")
>>
>> Thanks all!
>> adam