Advanced Search Form

[Jared]

I have a basic search running off of my Win 2k Server SP4
web server. I publish to this server for my company's
intranet site. I have finally got IIS to start indexing
the correct folder, and now I want to know if there is a
way I can sort FrontPage's search, or if there is a way to
make an 'Advanced' search.
By Advanced search, what I mean is this:
We can sort by 'score' or 'relevance' or something along
those lines; sort by hits (optional); sort by
name/date/author(optional).

I also noticed the search only shows 10 items at a time-
is there a way to force it to show more, like 30 per
page?

 

[MD WebsUnlimited.com]

Hi Jared,

You can write an ASP page to utilize Index Server and provide whatever
customization that you like. See the MSDN web site for the Index Server SDK.

 

[Jim Buyens]

You can create custom search pages using either ASP or
ASP.NET, but a full explanation is certainly beyond the
scope of a newsgroup message.

Basically, however, you use an ADODB provider named
msidxs. You open connections and retrieve records much as
you would for a conventional database, except that SQL
statement is quite a bit different.

For more info, browse http://search.microsoft.com and
search for msidxs.

Also, both Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out and
Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out describe a page
named aspsearch.asp that illustrates use of this provider.

The search page at
http://www.interlacken.com/common/search.aspx doesn't have
all the options you describe, but it illustrates that
something like you describe is possible.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.interlacken.com
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