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Laverne Douglas

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10/03/2007 4:16 PM
I guess I'm a little thick, since I have been unlucky at finding any references on how to install iFilters for Index Server or Lucene. If anyone can point me to a document I would appreciate it. Thanx in advance Laverner

Peter Donker

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10/03/2007 7:57 PM
Hi Laverne, Here's a couple of links: http://www.adobe.com/cfus..._us&term=ifilter http://www.google.ch/sear...amp;client=firefox-a You'll see bunches of stuff on iFilters. It's basically a seprately installed component on your server that informs Indexing Service (and Lucene) how to read a particular document. Obviously these are created by the companies that make the software that produces these documents. Peter

Laverne Douglas

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10/04/2007 12:23 AM
Peter: Thanx that was right on the money. Now, it appears there is no Office 2007 iFilter available as of yet. Is that correct? The only reference I could find was to Office OneNote 2007 and Sharepoint Server. Thanx again Laverne

Peter Donker

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10/05/2007 10:32 PM
Hi Laverne, I'm not aware of it. It would surprise me as it means Word 2007 documents would not be able to be searched by Windows (which uses the same iFilters). My guess is that they're already on your system. Peter

Laverne Douglas

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10/06/2007 4:31 PM
Peter: I agree. When I install Office 2007 on a Windows machine, indexing is working. But I am installing DMX on Server 2003, that I will not be installing Office (any version) on. Now, how does one proceed for Office 2007. It has been around for over six months now and users are starting to use Office 2007. Has anyone else come across iFilter for Office 2007? Thanx Laverne

Peter Donker

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10/07/2007 9:46 PM
I don't know of it, but we're looking into starting a page devoted to iFilters to help users. It still strikes me as odd that Win 2003 does not index Office 2007 docs out of the box (i.e. that office 2007 documents share enough structure with office 2003 docs to be able to decipher them). Peter

Robrecht Siera

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12/19/2007 3:37 PM
Here are the filters: http://www.microsoft.com/...playlang=en#filelist But still I can't get it to work. Nor the pdf search. Luke says 'content: not available'

Peter Donker

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12/19/2007 8:28 PM
Hi Robrecht, There is another issue with invoking them in .NET 2.0. I suspect a recent security update has made this solution technically more difficult/impossible. In the lab here the iFilter can no longer be accessed by managed code (i.e. .net). Great. Thanks MS. This was one of the reasons of putting extra attention on getting the Indexing Service alternative up in DMX. So you can always use that (it doesn't rely on a managed to unmanaged call in code). Meanwhile I'm keeping an eye out on resolving the Lucene issues. Peter

Sean Nolan

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03/11/2008 5:28 AM
Hi Peter, Have you found a resolution for this? It is pretty critical for my app to be able to search PDFs and I want to run it in DNN 4.x Sean

Peter Donker

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03/11/2008 10:42 PM
Hi Sean, I have been able to make repairs in 04.02.00. Have you tried that yet? It should resolve the content searching problems. Peter

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