Fileserver/database metadata indexing?

[mharrison]

Hi,

We are planning on implementing a keyword search feature for some documents that we have stored on a fileserver. The problem is, we have metadata about those documents (author, title, year published, etc) stored in a seperate database. The files themselves have a key number embedded in them, and that key number is also the key of the file's associated DB record.

Question 1: Can you index databases and associate the resulting metadata with the documents at crawl time?

Question 2: The key numbers are embedded in the documents using the NTFS alternate filestream (aka. the custom propertes storage interface). Can you index information stored in this way?

Thanks!

[John]

That sounds as if you would be better off with a custom application (possibly based on one of the sample applications or Webinator) using our Texis tool rather than the Search Appliance. That would allow you to combine relational searches on the metadata with full text searches against the document.

Please contact our sales department directly to discuss further the best approach.