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[Features] [Installation] [step 6(last step)] [Recommendations]

o You may alter the search interface or create your own customized search page
o You may alter the results page, add images, text, change colors
o Search using the Boolean operators AND and OR and NOT in the same search
o Group search terms using parentheses ( )
o Search for phrases
o Results page shows total records returned at the top of page
o Results returns 15 records per page
o Results shows what page user is on at top and links to the other pages at bottom
o You can search on HTML, HTM and ASP file types.
o Only 7 steps from installation to have the site database completed!

The links to returned records are named by the Title of the page. If no title is present, the file name will be used.

You have the option of adding a description to the page. This description is not show by web browsers (view source will show it) by will be listed in the returned results beneath the file Title. If you have a content rich site, this allows the user to get a more detailed idea of the page other than the search results.

The search can either be limited to one (1) folder or the entire site. Sub folders and sub webs will searched.

The search initially places the web contents in an Access2000 database. Folders that begin with an underscore "_" will not be included. If you wish to hide files from the search, they must be places in a folder that begins with "_".

SQL server can be used with minimal changes.

What you need:

The search files are ASP pages. You will need to be on an NT server.

** You do not have to use FrontPage in order to use this product **

Installation:

There are 2 folders, 3 files and 1 Access2000 database.

The two folders, MySearch and _filesystemtest both go in the web root.

The Access2000 database goes in the fpdb folder.

The three files, pagedresults.asp, pagedresults_all_show.asp and searchform.htm go in the web root.

1)
Just copy the 2 folders to your web root. If you are using FrontPage2000, I would drag and drop them directly into your website. They can NOT be in another folder.
For example, MySearch folder would be at www.yoursite.com/MySearch

2)
Copy the three files to the web root.
Example: www.yoursite.com/pagedresults.asp would be the address.

3)
Copy the Access2000 database to the "fpdb" folder provided by FrontPage. If it does not exist, create a folder with the name "fpdb". The Access2000 database has to be in a folder named fpdb.

4)
Using your browser, go to www.your_site.com/_filesystemtest/fsoAdmin8.asp

o leaving the field build site data blank will have you entire site searched with the exception
that any folder beginning with the underscore "_" will not be searched.

o only files that end in HTM, HTML or ASP will be searched

o subfolders and subwebs will also be searched

So, if you have a folder that you don't want people to search on, rename it with the underscore starting the name. Example; if I don't want the folder "Personal" being searched, I would rename it to "_Personal".

If you don't want certain files to be searched, you will need to place them in a folder beginning with "_" or give them an ending other than HTM, HTML or ASP.

Clicking the DB Check button will produce an error, as there is nothing in the database yet.

5)
The page you come to after the initial website search is successful has the total number of records you created listed at the top. You may click the back link to go back and do over or you may click on the
DB Check button at the bottom. If you are currently satisfied, click on the DB Check button.

6) Final step
This next page "pagedresults_all_show.asp" again shows the total number of records created at the top.
There are 15 records per page. You also see how many pages of records you have and which page you are on.

Using this page you are able to see at a glance which pages you have that do not have titles <title>. Or they have broken titles (no ending title </title>).

Title pages will list the title up to a length of 140 characters. If there is no title, the file name will be shown enclosed in (). You can click the link to go to the file.

This is NOT the file that the site search is directed to.

**This search database is not updated as things change on your site. If your "searchable" content changes often, you will need to simply rebuild the database. This was tested on a site with over 400 files. The database building process (see step 5) took on average 2.8 seconds. It reduced the total searchable records to 135. This was due to many files being behind a private folder… starting with "_".

The site search is searchform.htm go to www.your_site.com/searchform.htm to start searching or altering the search interface.

The site search results page is pagedresults.asp

Recommendations:

If you rebuild the search database often, it tends to build up clutter. As databases usually do. You can Recalculate (compact) the database by pressing the Recalculate button which is at the lower right on fsoAdmin8.asp.

You can also just delete the database and drag and drop the original database sent with the product back to the fpdb folder. Now just run the program.

Adding a description to a file:

Open the file. If you are using FrontPage you will want to click on the HTML tab after you open the file.

Add the following AFTER your <TITLE> tags:

You description is between the  delimiters.

This will show up below the Title or filename of returned results.

To start, go to _filesystemtest/fsoAdmin.asp