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| Title | ASP and Site Server Search Meta Tag Searching |
| Description | Sample VBScript (ASP) code showing how to search meta tags from Site Server |
| Keywords | asp, vbscript, meta tags, meta tag, search, site server, search, siteserver |
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| Page Content | ASP Kitchen Search: Go Home | ASP Articles | ASP.NET Articles | Tools | Table Of Contents | What's New ASP Kitchen : ASPWatch.com articles : ASP and Site Server Search Using the Site Server Search Facility to Search Custom Meta Tags Introduction An interesting feature of the Site Server 3.0 Search facility is the ability to search custom Meta Tags. A common use of this facility is to enable users of a web site to narrow down their searches to a particular part of a website. Restricting searches In a well organised site, you could restrict searches by only allowing searches of specific file paths. For example, the following will restrict searches to the financial section of the www.foo.com website: Util.AddScopeToQuery Q, http://www.foo.com/financial/ , deep However, if your content is distributed in many different folders (or even on different servers) then a file path restriction is not appropriate. A possible alternative is to tag certain pages with specific Meta Tags. The Tag Tool that is supplied with Site Server allows this to be done for entire websites at a time. Obviously, if you use Perl or some other type of scripting to generate static web pages from databases then adding Meta Tags is very straightforward. Searching custom Meta Tags The first stage is to add the custom Meta Tags to your web page. So if you want to tag the Customer Support and Financial Services pages respectively, add the following HTML to each: META NAME= Department CONTENT= Customer Support META NAME= Department CONTENT= Financial Services Having done this, you will have to rebuild the Search Catalog for that website. The ASP code that will create a basic search results page that will allow searching of these pages is below. Be sure to change the value of the Q.Catalog to the name of your Search Catalog! % set Util = Server.CreateObject( MSSearch.Util ) set Q = Server.CreateObject( MSSearch.Query ) Q.Catalog = catalog_name Q.SortBy = rank[d] Q.MaxRecords = 300 Q.Columns = DocTitle, DocAddress, size, write, rank Q.Query = @Meta_Department Financial Services Set RS = Q.CreateRecordSet( sequential ) Do while not RS.EOF Response.Write A HREF= Chr(34) RS( DocAddress ) Chr(34) RS( DocTitle ) /A BR RS.MoveNext Loop Set Util = nothing Set Q = nothing % Note that the search query specifies that the Department Meta Tag should be searched for instances of Financial Services . If you want to restrict searching to the Customer Support pages instead of the Financial Services pages, then modify the code appropriately: Q.Query = @Meta_Department Customer Support You could also search other custom Meta Tags in a similar way by adding the Meta_ prefix to them. So if an online store wanted to search the ProductArea Meta Tag, then you could use a Query such as: Q.Query = @Meta_ProductArea Toys Retrieving contents of Meta Tags If you want to retrieve the contents of Meta Tags and display them with the search results, then you need to use the following procedure, otherwise you may see an error similar to this: ADODB.Fields error '800a0cc1' ADO could not find the object in the collection corresponding to the name or ordinal reference requested by the application. /finance/search/default.asp, line 164 First, add Meta_Department to the Q.Columns line of the ASP code: Q.Columns = DocTitle, DocAddress, size, write, rank, Meta_Department Once you have done this, in the Site Server Administrator Microsoft Management Console (MMC), go to Console Root Search your_machine_name Catalog Build Server your_catalog_name Schema . In the Catalog Schema part of the MMC, click on the Add button. When the Add Schema Column part of the MMC appears, add the following: Property name = Meta_Department Property set = click on Standard property set, and change drop-down list to HTML Meta Property ID = department Type = change the drop-down list to String Index = Yes Retrieve = Yes When you have clicked on the Submit button, you are given the choice of changing the Master Schema (this changes all the Catalogs on that Search server) or creating a Custom Schema (this only changes the current Catalog). Having changed the Schema, you will then have to rebuild the Search Catalog. If you subsequently modify the ASP code to the following, each search result will then display the contents of the Department Meta Tag: Response.Write A HREF= Chr(34) RS( DocAddress ) Chr(34) RS( DocTitle ) /A ( RS( Meta_Department ) ) BR Further reading This is a brief introduction to the use of custom Meta Tags with Site Server. On well managed sites the use of such searches could make it a lot easier for your web site users to quickly find the content they are looking for. Index Server Companion . The Index Server Companion allows Index Server to index content from remote websites and ODBC databases. A much cheaper alternative to Site Server 3.0 Search! The Site Server Software Developer s Kit is useful (the kit is also on the Site Server 3.0 CD-ROM). Using ASP to view Site Server Search catalog properties . It is also possible to use Index Server to search custom Meta Tags. Further information is available here . Useful Development Tools ASP Documentation Tool Automatically creates developer documentation for ASP 2.0 and 3.0 web applications written in VBScript and JScript. Documentation for Microsoft Access, SQL Server 7/2000 databases and Visual Basic 6.0 components associated with the web application can also be incorporated into the reports. 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Author details Brett Burridge spent two years working in the University of Essex Computing Service, before moving to The Internet Applications Group in the Autumn of 1999, where he developed e-Business applications for a range of corporate clients and dot-com start ups. Brett is presently employed as an Internet developer and technical writer through his own company, Winnersh Triangle Web Solutions Limited . The company produces a number of innovative products, including the popular ASP Documentation Tool , the Index Server Companion , the ASP.NET Documentation Tool , the SQL Server Documentation Tool and The Website Utility . The company is also available for web application design and development at reasonable rates, primarily using Microsoft technologies (ASP, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, SQL Server) but also using open source technologies such as PHP, MySQL and Perl. Specialist services include development of search solutions using Microsoft's Index Server and Site Server 3.0 Search. As well as the ASPAlliance, Brett has written articles for Ariadne.ac.uk and ASPToday , and has contributed recipes to the ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook . links Outside web development, Brett is interested in digital photography (here's my photo gallery ), tropical fishkeeping and collecting contemporary works of art by artists such as Doug Hyde . Article history Using the Site Server Search facility to search custom Meta Tags originally published on ASPWatch.com on August 28 1999. Republished on ASPAlliance.com on 26 September 2001. ASP Kitchen : ASPWatch.com articles : ASP and Site Server Search
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