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:314603 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
