> Hey guys I have some questions if someone has any time. > > I have a basic plone site, and it works great. But I need to be able to > search on the content of Word docs. What's the easiest way to go about > doing this? I read a bit up on Archetypes, but it sounds like that's a > mechanism for converting information, which I don't necessarily need to > to.
i think you want the converters in textindexng2. I believe ingeniweb also has some mechanism to index word documents. enfold server (our commercial product) does it with microsoft's native IFilter functionality. there are quite a few ways to do this. > Looking at this document: > http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/integrating-office-files not familiar with it. > It says install Archetypes, but isn't that already included with Plone > (btw it would be great if it linked to the things it's asking you to > install). how about logging into plone and adding a comment? - I know a lot of the technologies such as pdf2html work but there are a myraid of problems having the work out of the box. > I downloaded Archtetypes 1.3.7 bundle, and the readme.txt mentions to > run the "quickinstaller_tool", there's no such file in the Archetypes > directory structure... ?? archetypes comes with modern plones, I believe since plone 2.0.0 > Any guidance would be most appreciated. well.. programmatically you want to influence the SearchableText index to index word documents. this is a zope/python issue not something particular to Plone/Archetypes. Although you could make it so SearchableText of a Archetype would return a string that would be consumable by the catalog index. > What are the odds that the next version of plone and index and search > office docs out of the box? limited if any. its a REAL PITA. what we should do is focus on documentation and the best way to accomplish this indexing. then if everyone can agree on a strategy - it can end up in Plone. also some tools work on linux but not on windows. we have a portal_transforms Word COM transformation we have contributed - several people have gotten that to work. alan _______________________________________________ Setup mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup
