re: Free chapter of our book - Searching MCMS with SharePoint

anguslogan — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:34:00 GMT

I was expecting much more in SPS-CMS chapter. I was looking for a light in the end of the tunnel where i was...

I bought the book and it seems to me that is very well written and address a lot of interesting (advanced) issues. But Relating to SPS ... its funny if you browse the SPP newsgroup you will find a lot questions without an answer:
1) WEBDAV support yes or no ?
2) QueryEx is not returning custom properties, and why MSFT samples and this book don't show an example of that.
3) IF you use Query, will you will have the custom properties but you'll need to parse XML content, best way is to look for the search schemas but then then you will find nice things like for example unexpected double UTF-8 enconding.
4) How to know the number of records found, like for example in SPP2001. SPP2003 is newer but is more limited ?

There are a few bugs and issues that are not addressed in day to day problems.
Meanwhile after the silence in the newsgroup and delay of this book, i manage to solve each dificulty.
but i do not understand why SPP info is so limited.

but in the overall the book is very good, like the first one. Sometimes we expected too much.

Tiago Pereira
tiago.private AT gmail.com

Free chapter of our book - Searching MCMS with SharePoint

TrackBack — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:32:00 GMT

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