At 10:52 AM 3/22/99 +0100, Raver wrote:
I'm working on an intranet site (using Zope). Now I need to make the site searchable. Tried using htdig, but without luck (should it work with zopesites?).
Unless you do something tricky, I doubt you will be able to get normal search engines to work with a Zope site, since I belive that most search engines want to read HTML files from the filesystem for indexing.
Now I wonder - is there a builtin feature in zope that can fix my problem, or are there other programs like htdig that works with zope?
Right now there is a simple Find mechanism, but it isn't really a robust search facility. In addition, Zope now includes low-level Python packages for indexing. So the basic tools are there, but there isn't an easy to use, out of the box search engine in Zope. We're working on a much better solution to this problem. We're calling it Zope Cataloging, and it is currently built with ZTables. I believe that like ZTables, Zope Cataloging will eventually be free, and become a core part of Zope. Unfortunately, I do not have a timeline. Sorry. :-( -Amos