I created a test page with a page description (I populated through Page
Properties.)  and I was hoping would be crawled and indexed by Sharepoint. I
also created a search page that uses Sharepoint as the search engine. Here's
part of my select query: SELECT "DAV:href",
"urn:schemas.microsoft.com:fulltextqueryinfo:displaytitle",
"urn:schemas.microsoft.com:fulltextqueryinfo:description" ...

After I crawled my CMS site using Sharepoint, I did a search on my CMS site
using the description text I added to my test page. I was expecting my test
page to be returned to me in my test results, but it wasn't. Now I'm
confused. Please clarify these for me:
1) What is the page description used for then?
2) How do I fix my query to get me what I want?

As a related question:
My search results showed something like this -
"Progam Info
Monday, January 16, 2006 2:38 PM | H O M E News Communities HR Central
Toolbox Archive AISI Career Pathways Curriculum Support Inn..."
where Progam Info is the title and the rest as the description.

Can I fix this so that the description displayed is the description I
entered in the page description property?


Thanks.

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Hi Pete,

this is a SharePoint related question. Please post to an SharePoint related
newsgroup.

Thanks,
Stefan

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"Pete G" <PeteG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:39108BE2-7AF9-4A1A-B667-868C484A66D6@microsoft.com...
>I created a test page with a page description (I populated through Page
> Properties.)  and I was hoping would be crawled and indexed by Sharepoint.
> I
> also created a search page that uses Sharepoint as the search engine.
> Here's
> part of my select query: SELECT "DAV:href",
> "urn:schemas.microsoft.com:fulltextqueryinfo:displaytitle",
> "urn:schemas.microsoft.com:fulltextqueryinfo:description" ...
>
> After I crawled my CMS site using Sharepoint, I did a search on my CMS
> site
> using the description text I added to my test page. I was expecting my
> test
> page to be returned to me in my test results, but it wasn't. Now I'm
> confused. Please clarify these for me:
> 1) What is the page description used for then?
> 2) How do I fix my query to get me what I want?
>
> As a related question:
> My search results showed something like this -
> "Progam Info
> Monday, January 16, 2006 2:38 PM | H O M E News Communities HR Central
> Toolbox Archive AISI Career Pathways Curriculum Support Inn..."
> where Progam Info is the title and the rest as the description.
>
> Can I fix this so that the description displayed is the description I
> entered in the page description property?
>
>
> Thanks.
>

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Thanks Stefan, but could you please comment on my question regarding the CMS
page description property. What is it for? Where and when does it show?

"Stefan [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi Pete,
>
> this is a SharePoint related question. Please post to an SharePoint relate
d
> newsgroup.
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
> --
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
>
> New to MCMS?
> Check out this book: Building Websites Using MCMS: http://tinyurl.com/6zj44[/url...nyurl.com/8ugwj
> ----------------------
>
>
> "Pete G" <PeteG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:39108BE2-7AF9-4A1A-B667-868C484A66D6@microsoft.com... 
>
>
>

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Hi Pete,

In SharePoint you need to confgure the "metadata" you are querying to be
seachable/show up in search results etc.
The best overview of this can be found in the help file which ships with the
MCMS Connector for SPT (aka SPARK).
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...rePointTech.exe

The description is simply metadata - think of it as a custom property, just
not custom!
It can be used pretty much in any manner you desire - without configuration
or code it will never show up in a MCMS app.

It is commonly used to produce the value for a  <meta name="description" />
element in posting HTML.

hth
Spence
www.mcmsfaq.com



"Pete G" <PeteG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:39108BE2-7AF9-4A1A-B667-868C484A66D6@microsoft.com...
>I created a test page with a page description (I populated through Page
> Properties.)  and I was hoping would be crawled and indexed by Sharepoint.
> I
> also created a search page that uses Sharepoint as the search engine.
> Here's
> part of my select query: SELECT "DAV:href",
> "urn:schemas.microsoft.com:fulltextqueryinfo:displaytitle",
> "urn:schemas.microsoft.com:fulltextqueryinfo:description" ...
>
> After I crawled my CMS site using Sharepoint, I did a search on my CMS
> site
> using the description text I added to my test page. I was expecting my
> test
> page to be returned to me in my test results, but it wasn't. Now I'm
> confused. Please clarify these for me:
> 1) What is the page description used for then?
> 2) How do I fix my query to get me what I want?
>
> As a related question:
> My search results showed something like this -
> "Progam Info
> Monday, January 16, 2006 2:38 PM | H O M E News Communities HR Central
> Toolbox Archive AISI Career Pathways Curriculum Support Inn..."
> where Progam Info is the title and the rest as the description.
>
> Can I fix this so that the description displayed is the description I
> entered in the page description property?
>
>
> Thanks.
>

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Hi Pete,

it is not used by MCMS. Your site logic (e.g navigation controls or other
code) can use this info if you like.

Cheers,
Stefan

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New to MCMS?
Check out this book: Building Websites Using MCMS: http://tinyurl.com/6zj44
Check out the new book as well: Advanced MCMS development:
http://tinyurl.com/8ugwj
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"Pete G" <PeteG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:92DA57AD-5A07-4873-95C7-A7EBCCCFD404@microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Thanks Stefan, but could you please comment on my question regarding the
> CMS
> page description property. What is it for? Where and when does it show?
>
> "Stefan [MSFT]" wrote:
> 

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