Chapter 9 Search Attributes: SharePoint

This chapter lists the attributes that are available to create a SharePoint site configuration in the Portal Server 7.2 console. This chapter contains the following sections:

• Introduction

• SharePoint Site Configuration Attributes

• SharePoint Properties Configuration Attributes

Introduction

The SharePoint search crawler finds resources and determines whether to add descriptions of those resources to the search database by extracting and follows links to the various sites selected for indexing. The determination of which sites to visit and what parts of those sites to index is called a site definition.

SharePoint Site Configuration Attributes

The attributes that you need to mention to configure SharePoint Sites are:

URL

Specifies SharePoint site URL

Site Name

Specifies the name of SharePoint site (optional)

User Name

Specifies the name of SharePoint site administrator (optional)

Password

Specifies the password of SharePoint site administrator (optional)

Description

Provides a description of SharePoint site (optional)

Status

Specifies a SharePoint site that can be accessed by SharePoint search crawler (default: enabled)

Process Subsites

Specify that the crawler only process parent sites or process subsites also. (default: process sub sites)

SharePoint Properties Configuration Attributes

The attributes that you need to mention to configure SharePoint Properties are:

Content Database

Specifies the name of content database that the SharePoint search crawler will use.

Sites Database

Specifies the name of sites database that the SharePoint search crawler will use.

Temporary Directory

Specifies a place for the SharePoint search crawler to create temporary files.