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I received the following inquiry from the DIGITAL account manager of a major
oil company in Norway.
The question is about AltaVista Search Intranet PX and Lotus Notes.
I told him I'd post here and monitor replies.
Thanks in advance for any recommendations.
-John
ps: posted with permission
From: NAME: Halvor Valstad
FUNC: SI
TEL: +47 2276 8462 / 9011 3602 <HALVORV AT A1@OSL01@NWO>
To: george ferry @nio,
john prestidge @zko
CC: NAME: Anders Teslo <ANDERST AT A1@OSL01@NWO>
George / John,
You mention Internet / Intranet solutions in your services
portfolio - do you know about anyone who has extended
AltaVista Search Intranet PX to also index and search
information residing in Lotus Notes databases (eventually
via Lotus Notes v.4.5 (Domino)) ?
Is this something that can be made possible via the
AltaVista Search Developer's Kit ?
The oil company Statoil, the largest Norwegian enterprise,
will probably launch a project quite soon to look into the
use of AltaVista Search Intranet PX, but very much of
Statoil's internal information is today inside distributed
Lotus Notes databases.
BTW - I am the account manager for the Norwegian oil & gas
customers.
Best regards
Halvor V.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 4548.1 | Av Search + Lotus Notes | SUTRA::MOXLEY | Shiny Shoes, Shiny Mind | Mon Mar 17 1997 10:18 | 6 |
I thought that a Domino server made Lotus Notes appear as HTML files,
if so, then AV Search can index them, no problem.
From my reading of the partner forum, I don't think there are currently
plans to include indexing of Lotus Notes native, however.
Simon
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| 4548.2 | TENNIS::KAM | AltaVista Software 714/261-4133 DTN 535.4133 | Mon Mar 17 1997 10:28 | 44 | |
I got the diagram of the www.lotus.com URL. I got this answer from the
AltaVista Engineering.
Regards,
+---------------------+
| Domino | +--------+
| http Domino | | Notes |
Web --------+ <---> +<------>+ |
client | Server Engine | | Server |
+----------+----------+ +----+---+
| ^
| |
| v
html, gif, cgi, java... Notes
files Databases
"Domino URLs contain "?" (question mark) characters - these URLs are not
gathered by default. To enable the gathering of these pages...
(from the online handbook:)
Gathering Pages Whose URLs Contain Question Marks
By default, AltaVista Search does not retrieve pages whose URLs contain
a question mark (?). URLs of this form are typically associated with
dynamically generated content and cgi-bin scripts. If you want the page
gathering software to collect pages with question marks in their URLs,
edit the files named net.aggressive, net.polite, and net.normal in the
/index/intranet/settings directory (\index\intranet\settings on NT),
and add the line
set allowQMark True
If the server is running, stop and restart it for the change to take effect.
Note that when this option is set to True, AltaVista search might follow
links to servers that are capable of generating a potentially infinite
set of pages dynamically. You can avoid triggering this behavior by using
exclude rules to prevent page gathering from such servers. If a server has
other data that you do want to index, you can place a robots.txt file on
that server that prevents the page gatherer from accessing the dynamic
content while allowing the software to collect pages of interest."
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| 4548.3 | thank you | HYLNDR::PRESTIDGE | Systems Engineering | Tue Mar 18 1997 10:09 | 6 |
Thanks for your time and the info. I've forwarded it on.
regards,
-John
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