Re: Question about enabling search and retrieval

["Rick Ferrell" <rick -dot- ferrell -at- gmail -dot- com>]

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Dear Shelly

Our Upcoming release of Flare v3 due out this summer will allow you to
create WebHelp Plus, When WebHelp Plus is on a IIS server, it will allow you
to search your DOC, PDF files and other file types, if these files are
located in your project.  So if you can have the Data Files in your Flare
project this would be a way to go


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On 6/7/07, Kapoor, Shelly <SKapoor -at- imf -dot- org> wrote:
>
> Hi
> The application we are trying to document is large and has many
> components.  For the biggest part, we have an online help system (in
> Flare).  For the other parts, we have Word documents, HTML files, pdfs
> etc.  All these information sources are scattered in various servers in
> multiple locations.  We need a quick way to enable users to do a search
> across these disparate, document types.  I've thought of something that
> we can do as a pro tem measure.  Of course, for the eventual, final
> release, we are looking at using XML and asking one of our developers to
> help us create a document retrieval system using MS Access.
>
> For now, here's what I am thinking of doing - tell me what you think
> about it, and if there is a better way to do this.
>
> 1.  Within the Flare project, create some sort of an index page
> (HTML/XHTML) to each Word document and pdf document.  Include a short
> summary of the content in the Word document.
> 2.  Compile the Flare project as usual.
>
> Now, when a user performs a search for a particular string that is part
> of a Word document, the Flare search engine will list the associated
> index page with a link to the actual document in a server somewhere.  I
> am even thinking of adding keywords in the meta tag of the index page,
> in cases where I can't provide a summary that has all the keywords that
> can be associated with the document.  However, I am not sure if these
> will be read by the Flare search engine.  I read on the Web that all
> search engines look for the keywords in the meta tag, so I am hoping
> this will work.  What do you think?
>
> Shelly
>
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