Re: Crawling files in external application

2013-06-02 Thread Web Admin
Plain text is fine. It's just a URL. You just want to render it as a URL in your display template within your custom results. The default core results xml would just render it as plain text otherwise. Is this what's occurring? Sorry, still confused here. But if you're trying to return mixed resul

Re: Crawling files in external application

2013-05-30 Thread Shahram Banihashem
The document URL is exposed as a property. But I have a feeling that SharePoint crawler take the URL as plain text since it comes as system.string field. So, the question is how to let the crawler know this is a hyperlink and required to be indexed. SharePoint designer doesn't let you change the fi

Re: Crawling files in external application

2013-05-30 Thread Web Admin
Is the document URL accessible as a property? Or are you saying that the crawler is ignoring it? Not sure where the block is occurring. On 30 May 2013 13:17, Shahram Banihashem wrote: > When you create you external content type, you can create a profile page > which displays the item propertie

Re: Crawling files in external application

2013-05-29 Thread Shahram Banihashem
When you create you external content type, you can create a profile page which displays the item properties (metadata). This form is similar to 'View Properties' page. The same form will be displayed if you click on the identifier field on the External List. Anyway, the search crawler indexes item

Re: Crawling files in external application

2013-05-29 Thread Web Admin
What do you mean by "crawler only index the profile page with all the metadata in it"? Do u get results on a search results page using OOTB web part? Have u considered a custom render template to format the non-SharePoint metadata to suit your needs? Regards, Paul Noone SharePoint Farm Admin/D

Crawling files in external application

2013-05-29 Thread Shahram Banihashem
Hi All, I need to get my SharePoint 2013 search to crawl files sitting in an external (non-SharePoint) application. The files are not accessible as a network drive or similar. They can be accessed over HTTP only through the hosting application, like a web service with the document Id. I've tried