Thank you Mike and Aaron, all good points. The CF app provides more functionality than just searching so it will stay for the time being.
Regards Victor On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Aaron Rouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd write a web service on the SharePoint side for CF to interact with > although I agree just move it to SharePoint. > Victor, are all the file types that they want to search supported by > SharePoint? I saw a complaint here at work about SharePoint not searching > across some non-MS file formats not sure if there is any truth behind that > or not but might be something to look into. > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Mike Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know the extent to which you are using ColdFusion, although I > > would question why use CF to provide a search interface to SharePoint > > when you could just use the SharePoint search features. I would > > recommend getting rid of CF and shifting this functionality entirely > > over to SharePoint if that is an option. SharePoint is very good at > > what it does. For a more direct answer to your question I think you > > will have to write custom code and I don't think too many people would > > have experience with doing what you are trying to do. Maybe do a form > > post with CFHTTP and parse the results. If all the documents to search > > are in SharePoint and your CF Web site does more than just search > > these documents, then the quickest solution would be to display a URL > > to the new SharePoint system on the CF search page. > > > > -Mike Chabot > > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Victor Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Hi Mike, > > > > > > OK, maybe you are right so let me rephrase it. > > > They have a bunch a documents that are index by Verity and then they > > perform > > > searches through the docs using a CF app. > > > By deploying SharePoint they want to have all the docs being index by > > > SharePoint and using the same CF app (with the necessary changes) to > > search > > > the SharePoint document collection. > > > So I guess what I'm looking for is something like cfsearch (an API that > I > > > can invoke from a CF app) that can be used to search a SharePoint > > document > > > collection. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Victor > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Mike Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > >> Victor, > > >> By "Verity" do you mean the search engine technology that comes > > >> bundled with ColdFusion? If that is what you mean then I think your > > >> question is confusing because SharePoint has an entirely different > > >> purpose so it doesn't make sense to convert from one technology to the > > >> other. Are you looking for a way to search for documents located in a > > >> SharePoint system and link to the documents from a ColdFusion Web > > >> application? > > >> > > >> -Mike Chabot > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314604 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
